Policy Text
I. PURPOSE
To provide Department members with guidelines to utilize Naloxone, pursuant
to Florida State Statute, 381.387, in order to reduce a fatal opioid overdose.
This policy is intended to address the members’ role and responsibility of
protecting the safety and welfare of the community. As such, members need to
recognize the symptoms of a person suffering from an opioid overdose to
attempt to protect and help the individual.