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

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.