House Joint Resolution 100, sponsored by Faison, emphasizes the importance of overdose reversal initiatives in Tennessee, recognizing the need for increased resources to effectively address addiction treatment. The resolution highlights the state's recent modest decreases in overdose death rates, suggesting that greater access to overdose reversal medications, such as Narcan, could further reduce fatalities. It also references the opioid abatement fund established by Tennessee law, which allocates funds from a statewide opioid settlement to support various opioid-related programs.

The resolution urges the Tennessee opioid abatement council and participating counties to allocate at least 25% of their expenditures from the opioid abatement fund specifically towards initiatives that promote the distribution and awareness of overdose reversal medications. This allocation is intended to continue until the state's overdose death rate decreases by at least 25%. A certified copy of the resolution will be sent to the Tennessee opioid abatement council for further distribution to the involved counties.