Bill to Require Naloxone Overdose Spray in Workplace First-Aid Kits Passes California Assembly

A California bill to require that workplace first aid kits include naloxone nasal spray, used to reverse deadly opioid overdoses, is quickly making its way through the Legislature. Assembly Bill 1976 has strong bipartisan support and is now under consideration in the state Senate after passing an Assembly vote on May 22. Assemblyman Matt Haney, who chairs the Assembly’s Fentanyl and Opioid Overdose Prevention Committee, authored the bill after hearing from hundreds of family members whose loved ones died of drug overdoses, he said in a statement Tuesday. “If fentanyl continues to be more accessible than naloxone, we’re going to keep seeing an increase in overdose deaths in our communities,” Mr. Haney said in a press release. “Until we can cut off the supply of fentanyl to our state, we have a responsibility to make sure that we’re saving as many lives as possible—especially the lives of our youth.”...