When 18-year-old Dillon Mueller of Mishicot suffered a severe allergic reaction to a bee sting in 2014, none of the volunteer first responders had epinephrine injectors available. He went into a coma and was removed from life support only days later.
This inspired Dillon’s Law in 2017, which allowed businesses and schools to utilize epinephrine auto-injectors. Gov. Tony Evers officially signed an expansion to that law today in legislation known as Dillon’s Law 2.0.
The new expansion aims to ensure more trained individuals have access to epinephrine, with the ability to inject it when needed.
It expands upon the original version of Dillon’s Law by allowing a certified person to get any FDA-approved epinephrine from a pharmacy, without having to receive a physician’s prescription. Not only does this include auto-injectors, but also prefilled syringes as well as any future applications of the medicine.
Angel Mueller, Dillon’s mother, told Seehafer News that streamlining the process is the goal of this legislation, saying, “This will make it a lot easier for the good Samaritan to take the free training and go straight to the pharmacy without the extra step of having to get that doctor’s prescription.”
The training she refers to is the Do It for Dillon epinephrine training program. It is being offered around the state, having already served over 3,000 individuals. The goal is that after completing the one-hour course, trained individuals can then carry epinephrine and administer it to anyone in need.
For information or to register for a training course, visit EpiForDilly.com.
