In an earlier blog post, I summarized North Carolina’s harm reduction immunity laws, including our safe syringe exchange law, G.S. 90-113.27, our Good Samaritan law, G.S. 90-96.2, and others. As practitioners may know, our Good Samaritan law was enacted in 2013. Since then, the General Assembly broadened the scope of the law, and we have a new appellate case discussing when the law applies. As practitioners may know, the Good Samaritan law can provide limited immunity from prosecution for a person calling to report a drug overdose and the person overdosing. This post lays out the current state of the Good Samaritan law and offers advice on how to litigate and preserve arguments under the law.
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