New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 7 - HEALTH › Chapter 32 - ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE › Part 7 - OVERDOSE PREVENTION AND EDUCATION PROGRAM AUTHORIZATION FOR OPIOID ANTAGONISTS › Section 7.32.7.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A.
"Administration of opioid antagonist"
means the direct application
				of an opioid antagonist to the body of an individual by injection, inhalation,
				ingestion or any other means.
B.
"Department"
means the New Mexico department of health.
C.
"Dispense"
means to evaluate
				and implement a prescription for an opioid antagonist, including the
				preparation and the delivery of a drug or device to a patient or patient's
				agent;
D.
"Distribute"
means to deliver an opioid antagonist drug or opioid antagonist device by means
				other than by administering or dispensing;
E.
"Enrollment form"
means the
				form approved by the department to register an individual as a trained targeted
				responder.
F.
"Licensed
				prescriber"
means any individual who is authorized by law to prescribe
				an opioid antagonist in the state.
G.
"Medication log"
means the
				form used to track the storage and distribution of the opioid
				antagonist.
H.
"Opioid"
means any substance containing or derived from opium
				including, but not limited to morphine and heroin, and any morphine-like
				synthetic narcotic that produces the same effects as substances derived from
				the opium poppy.
I.
"Opioid
				antagonist"
means a drug approved by the federal food and drug
				administration that, when administered, negates or neutralizes in whole or in
				part the pharmacological effects of an opioid in the body. "Opioid antagonist"
				shall be limited to naloxone or other like medications that are indicated for
				use in reversing an opioid overdose and are approved by the department for such
				purpose.
J.
"Overdose
				prevention and education program (OPE)"
means any community-based
				organization, law enforcement agency, detention facility or school that has
				registered with the department in accordance with department rules and uses an
				approved department curriculum to teach overdose prevention and opioid
				antagonist administration.
K.
"Overdose response educator"
means any staff or volunteer who is
				registered with an
overdose prevention and education program
who are trained and certified by the department in the
overdose
				response education curriculum
.
L.
"Overdose response educator
				curriculum"
means a department approved curriculum to train and certify
				overdose response educators, which must be repeated every two years.
M.
"Possess"
means to have
				physical control or custody of an opioid antagonist.
N.
"Record of use form"
means
				the department designated report for the use or loss of an opioid antagonist,
				the response to a suspected opioid overdose or the re-issuance of an opioid
				antagonist to a trained targeted responder.
O.
"Standing order"
means a
				licensed prescriber's instruction or prescribed procedure that is either
				patient specific or non-patient specific that can be exercised by other persons
				until changed or canceled by a licensed prescriber.
P.
"Storage"
means possession of
				an opioid antagonist with the intent to dispense or distribute it.
Q.
"Trained targeted responder"
means a person who is trained by overdose response educators to possess and
				administer an opioid antagonist to a person who is experiencing an opioid
				overdose, and has completed the
trained targeted responder
				curriculum
.
R.
"Trained targeted responder curriculum"
means a department
				approved curriculum for trained targeted responders.