COLUMBUS (WCMH) – Starting tomorrow a new weapon in the fight against heroin takes effect here in Ohio. It’s called the Good Samaritan Law.

State lawmakers believe the Good Samaritan Law will save lives, adding that 8 out of 10 people who use drugs use with someone else.

“With the most resent of additions of fentanyl and carfentanyl, we have now increased from 2,482 overdose deaths in 2014, to 3,050 overdose deaths in 2015,” said State Rep. Robert Sprague (R-Findlay), “Now, unfortunately, it looks as if we may set new records for 2016.”

At a press conference Monday afternoon in front of a room full of supporters of the bill, the state representative reassured supporters that this new law will impact lives.

One of those supporters is Wayne Campbell, founder and president of Tyler’s Light. Campbell’s son Tyler died from an accidental opioid overdose in 2011 from taking pain pills after surgery.

“There are a lot of times where people are together and one of them is going through an overdose, and then the fear of the rest of them getting caught and nothing is done,” said Campbell.

This law gives immunity twice from arrest, charges and convictions to both a caller and the person overdosing on drugs.

“In the state of Ohio we’ve gone from about 70 million doses 10 years ago of prescribed narcotics, to 800 million doses. So we’ve got to do more in that respect,” Sprague said.