California Family Code 6929

Overdose Prevention Strategies
Written By Josie Daaboul

California Family Code 6929 describes minor consent to drug services, and part (b) states that minors age 12+ may consent to diagnosis and treatment of drug/alcohol problems. Certainly doesn’t scream “give minors FTS and naloxone” but most law is parsimonious rather than narrowly prescriptive, and this is the legal basis we all use for youth overdose prevention services generally.

Josie Daaboul
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