NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT on February 17, 2015, the Board of Medicine issued a Final Order on the petition for declaratory statement filed by Gary M. Reisfield, M.D. The Notice of the Petition was published in Volume 40, No. 210, of the October 28, 2014, issue of the Florida Administrative Register. The Board reviewed the Petition at its meeting held on December 5, 2014. The Board’s Final Order finds that the Petitioner may prescribe an opioid antagonist to his patients at risk of experiencing an opioid overdose for administration by a third party to that patient, and Petitioner may teach overdose prevention and response education to his patients or other persons in a position to assist patients at risk of experiencing an opioid overdose without such acts constituting a violation of Section 458.331(1)(f), (g), (q), (t), or (w), Florida Statutes.
A copy of the Final Order may be obtained by contacting the Board of Medicine, 4052 Bald Cypress Way, Bin #C03, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-3253.