PART I-B. LOCAL OVERDOSE FATALITY REVIEW PANELS
§2025.1. Legislative findings
The legislature hereby finds and declares the following:
(1) Substance use disorder and drug overdose are major health problems that
affect the lives of many people, multiple services systems, and lead to profound
consequences, including permanent injury and death.
(2) Overdoses caused by heroin, fentanyl, other opioids, stimulants, controlled
substance analogs, novel psychoactive substances, and other legal and illegal drugs
are a public health crisis that stress and strain the financial, public health, healthcare,
and public safety resources in Louisiana.
(3) Overdose fatality reviews, which are designed to uncover the who, what,
when, where, why, and how a fatal overdose occurs, allow jurisdictions to examine
and understand the circumstances leading to a fatal drug overdose.
(4) Through a comprehensive and multidisciplinary review, overdose fatality
review panels can better understand the individual and population factors and
characteristics of potential overdose victims.
Acts 2024, No. 498, §1.