The Health Select Committee is considering a Good Samaritan law, providing legal protection to people seeking emergency help during an overdose. The law could reduce preventable overdose deaths, which claim about 150 New Zealand lives each year.
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With nearly three New Zealanders dying from accidental drug overdose every week, more needs to be done to prevent such deaths. Good Samaritan overdose laws are one intervention that can help save live...
