If you give someone a medication, (i.e. aspirin for a heart attack) are you protected by the good samaritan laws? The reason I ask is that I'm on an emergency response team at my job. We keep fairly well stocked first aid cabinets throughout the campus, but we are strongly discouraged from actually giving someone a medication. We are trained in CPR and basic first aid. Med administration is outside of our scope of practice. The meds in the cabinets are there for someone to pick out for themselves.

Which brings up another interesting point. There have been discussions of putting medications in some sort of vending machine where there is a miniscule charge to buy them. Not for financial reasons, but rather to get them shows a determined effort. Otherwise, if someone were to take a handful of Ibuprofen home and then have an allergic reaction, the company could conceivable be held liable.

Madness .....

Thanks,
LW