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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="5-904" title_number="5" title_name="Death" subtitle_number="9" subtitle_name="Drug Overdose Fatality Review Teams">
  <level label="a">
    <text>On request of the chair of a local team and as necessary to carry out the purpose and duties of the local team, the local team shall be immediately provided with:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Access to information and records, including information about physical health, mental health, and treatment for substance abuse, maintained by a health care provider for:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>An individual whose death or near fatality is being reviewed by the local team; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>An individual convicted of a crime or adjudicated as having committed a delinquent act that caused a death or near fatality; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Access to information and records maintained by a State or local government agency, including death certificates, law enforcement investigative information, medical examiner investigative information, parole and probation information and records, and information and records of a social services agency, if the agency provided services to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>An individual whose death or near fatality is being reviewed by the local team;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>An individual convicted of a crime or adjudicated as having committed a delinquent act that caused a death or near fatality; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The family of an individual described in item (i) or (ii) of this item.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Substance abuse treatment records requested or provided under this section are subject to any additional limitations on disclosure or redisclosure of a medical record developed in connection with the provision of substance abuse treatment services under State law or 42 U.S.C. § 290dd–2 and 42 C.F.R. Part 2.</text>
  </level>
</section>
