Advocates frustrated with pace for rules to dispense overdose antidote

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Advocates of a bill that would allow pharmacists to dispense an opioid-effects blocking drug with restrictions are frustrated that regulatory barriers the law was supposed to knock down are still up.
Gov. Bill Walker signed the  law six months ago to ease access to the life-saving drug, but new rules are more than a month away.
Scores of people have died in Alaska from heroin and other opioid overdose deaths this year, accor