Georgia Code
Article 6 - Pharmacies
§ 26-4-116.2. Authority of Licensed Health Practitioners to Prescribe Opioid Antagonists; Immunity From Liability

History. Code 1981, § 26-4-116.2 , enacted by Ga. L. 2014, p. 683, § 2-2/HB 965; Ga. L. 2017, p. 22, § 4/SB 121; Ga. L. 2017, p. 319, § 3-1/HB 249.
Effective date.
This Code section became effective April 24, 2014. See editor’s note for applicability.
The 2017 amendments.
The first 2017 amendment, effective April 18, 2017, added “or Code Section 31-1-10” at the end of subsection (c); added “or pursuant to Code Section 31-1-10” at the end of subsection (d); in subsection (e), substituted “shall be immune” for “are immune” and substituted “civil liability, criminal responsibility,” for “civil or criminal liability”; deleted “and” at the end of paragraph (e)(2); added paragraph (e)(3); redesignated former paragraph (e)(3) as present paragraph (e)(4); and added subsection (f). The second 2017 amendment, effective July 1, 2017, made identical changes.
Editor’s notes.
Ga. L. 2014, p. 683, § 3-1(b)/HB 965, not codified by the General Assembly, provides, in part, that this Code section shall apply to all acts committed on or after April 24, 2014.
Law reviews.
For article on the 2017 amendment of this Code section, see 34 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 143 (2017).
For article, “MDL and the Allure of Sidestepping Litigation,” see 53 Ga. L. Rev. 1287 (2019).
For comment, “The Opioid Epidemic: Returning to the Basics,” see 70 Mercer L. Rev. 525 (2019).

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