Table 1.

Selected naloxone access law provisions for each state participating in the HEALing communities study.

	Kentucky	Massachusetts	New York	Ohio
Pharmacists can dispense without prescription	✓	✓	✓	✓
Statewide standing order		✓	✓
Third-party Prescribing	✓	✓	✓	✓
Co-Prescription Mandate			✓	✓
Pharmacy must maintain sufficient supply		✓
Pharmacist educational requirement		✓
Recipient educational requirement	✓	✓	✓	✓
Identification not required for pharmacy dispensing		✓	✓
Civil/criminal immunity for person administering	✓	✓	✓	✓
Immunities for prescriber and dispenser	✓	✓		✓

¹Ohio passed recent legislation to allow pharmacies to obtain and maintain sufficient supply of naloxone for use in emergencies but this is not mandated; See https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-4729.515.

²Although New York's NAL does not explicitly address prescriber and dispenser immunity, broad immunity is likely interpretable under the NAL.

³New York's NAL provision for co-prescription became effective in June 2022 and statewide standing order became effective in August 2022.