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Home » US Law » 2022 Colorado Code » Title 25 - Public Health and Environment » Article 47 - Use of Epinephrine Auto-Injectors by Authorized Entities » § 25-47-106. Emergency Public Access Stations – Life-Saving Allergy Medication
  1. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary:
    1. A medical professional may prescribe a stock supply of epinephrine auto-injectors to any authorized entity for storage in an EPAS and may place a stock supply of epinephrine auto-injectors in an EPAS maintained by an authorized entity;
    2. A medical professional may consult the user of an EPAS and make the epinephrine auto-injectors stored in the EPAS available to the user; and
    3. Any person may use an EPAS to administer or provide an epinephrine auto-injector to an individual believed in good faith to be experiencing anaphylaxis or to provide an epinephrine auto-injector to a family member, friend, colleague, caregiver, or person with a similar relationship with the individual.
  2. The use of an EPAS in accordance with this article is neither the practice of medicine nor of any other profession that requires licensure.

Source: L. 2015: Entire article added, (HB 15-1232), ch. 191, p. 630, § 1, effective May 14.