Guam § 16110 - Arrest and Prosecution When Experiencing or

§ 16110. Arrest and Prosecution When Experiencing or

Reporting Opioid Overdoses.

(a) No individual shall be subject to arrest or prosecution

for the possession of opioid if:

(1) Such individual in good faith, seeks or obtains

emergency medical attention for himself if he is experiencing

overdose or for another individual if such other individual is

experiencing an overdose and another individual in good

faith seeks or obtains emergency medical attention for such

individual, by contemporaneously reporting such overdose;

(2) such individual remains at the scene of the

overdose or at any alternative location to which he or the

person requiring emergency medical attention has been

transported until a law-enforcement officer responds to the

report of an overdose. If no law-enforcement officer is

present at the scene of the overdose or at the alternative

location, then such individual shall cooperate with law

enforcement as otherwise set forth herein;

(3) such individual identifies himself to the law-

enforcement officer who responds to the report of the

overdose; and

(4) The evidence for the prosecution of an offense

enumerated in this subsection was obtained as a result of the

individual seeking or obtaining emergency medical attention

or rendering emergency care or assistance.