Enhancing coordination and data collection to bolster state and local response

• Establishes an Opioid Command Center located at the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency

• Expands access to Prescription Drug Monitoring Program to other commonwealth entities for clinical decision-making purposes

• Adds overdoses and Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome as reportable conditions

• Authorizes emergency purchase under procurement code for hotline contract.

Improves tools for families, first responders and others to save lives

• Enables Emergency Medical Services providers to leave behind naloxone

• Allows pharmacists to partner with other organizations to increase access to naloxone

• Allows for the immediate temporary rescheduling of all fentanyl derivatives to align with the federal DEA schedule, speeding up and expanding access to treatment

• Waive the face-to-face physician requirement for Narcotic Treatment Program admissions

• Expand access to medication-assisted treatment

• Waive annual licensing requirements for high-performing drug and alcohol treatment facilities

• Waive separate licensing requirements for hospitals and emergency departments to expand access to drug and alcohol treatment