{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-57-57-4.1","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 57, § 57-4.1","heading":"Administering medications","body":"A. In addition to other medical and health care services\n\nrequired by a jail facility as may be provided by rule by the State\n\nDepartment of Health, the person responsible for administration for\n\na jail shall administer medications according to the following:\n\n1. Prescription medications shall be provided to the prisoner\n\nas directed by a physician or designated medical authority. The\n\nprisoner shall be observed to ensure the prisoner takes the\n\nmedication. The physician or designated medical authority shall be\n\nparticularly aware through his or her training of the impact of\n\nopiate or methadone withdrawal symptoms that may occur in regard to\n\nthe mental and physical health of the prisoner. The physician or\n\nmedical authority shall prescribe and administer appropriate\n\nmedications to the prisoner pursuant to Section 5-204 of Title 43A\n\nof the Oklahoma Statutes as the medical authority deems appropriate\n\nto address those symptoms. Neither prescription nor over-the-\n\ncounter medications shall be kept by a prisoner in a cell with the\n\nexception of prescribed nitroglycerin tablets and prescription\n\ninhalers. Over-the-counter medications shall not be administered\n\nwithout a physician’s approval unless using prepackaged medications;\n\n2. Medical reception information shall be recorded on a printed\n\nscreening form approved by the physician or designated medical\n\nauthority which shall include inquiry into:\n\na. current illnesses and health problems including\n\nmedications taken and any special health requirements,\n\nb. behavioral observation, including state of\n\nconsciousness and mental status,\n\nc. body deformities and trauma markings such as bruises,\n\nlesions, jaundice, and ease of body movement,\n\nd. condition of skin and visible body orifices, including\n\ninfestations, and\n\ne. disposition or referral of prisoners to qualified\n\nmedical personnel on an emergency basis; and\n\n3. For purposes of this section, “physician or other licensed\n\nmedical personnel” means a psychiatrist, medical doctor, osteopathic\n\nphysician, physician’s assistant, registered nurse, licensed\n\npractical nurse, emergency medical technician at the paramedical\n\nlevel or clinical nurse specialist.\n\nB. 1. Subject to the provision of emergency opioid antagonists\n\nby the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services\n\nunder Section 1 of this act:\n\na. the Department of Corrections, upon the discharge of\n\nan inmate from an institution within the Department\n\nwho has been diagnosed with an opioid use disorder,\n\nregardless of whether that inmate has received\n\ntreatment for the disorder, shall provide the inmate,\n\nas the inmate leaves the institution, with two doses\n\nof an emergency opioid antagonist, and\n\nb. a county jail:\n\n(1) upon the discharge of any person who is confined\n\nin the jail pursuant to a sentence who has been\n\ndiagnosed with an opioid use disorder, regardless\n\nof whether that person has received treatment for\n\nthe disorder, or\n\n(2) upon the discharge of any person who is confined\n\nin the jail for an offense related to possession\n\nof an opioid drug other than:\n\n(a) a person who is confined in the jail\n\npursuant to a sentence, or\nany person who is confined\n\nin the jail pursuant to a sentence who has been\n\ndiagnosed with an opioid use disorder, regardless\n\nof whether that person has received treatment for\n\nthe disorder, or\n\n(2) upon the discharge of any person who is confined\n\nin the jail for an offense related to possession\n\nof an opioid drug other than:\n\n(a) a person who is confined in the jail\n\npursuant to a sentence, or\n\n(b) a person who is being transferred to the\n\ncustody of the Department of Corrections,\n\nshall provide the person, as the person leaves the\n\njail, with two doses of an emergency opioid\n\nantagonist.\n\n2. Notwithstanding the provision of emergency opioid\n\nantagonists by the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse\n\nServices as provided by Section 1 of this act, the Department of\n\nCorrections and county jails may stock and provide emergency opioid\n\nantagonists to inmates or persons upon discharge from the\n\ninstitution or jail as described in paragraph 1 of this subsection.\n\n3. Before the Department of Corrections or a county jail\n\nprovides an emergency opioid antagonist to an inmate or person as\n\ndescribed in paragraph 1 or 2 of this subsection, the Department of\n\nCorrections or the jail shall ensure that the inmate or person is\n\nprovided with the opioid overdose education program provided by the\n\nDepartment of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services under\n\nSection 1 of this act.\n\n4. Nothing in this subsection is intended to abrogate or\n\nsupersede any existing authority of the Department of Corrections or\n\na county jail to administer an emergency opioid antagonist to a\n\nperson experiencing an opioid overdose.","path":["OK Code","Title 57"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os57.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"e40f0b0b6b9adddd5057ab2525e93f4b82deb1cc27e38ea7d7fe7d827f45a592","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-57-57-4","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-57-57-4.2"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}