I take your point. However, as recently as 2003, the director of the DPH's Drug Control Program found it necessary to recommend through a memo to the Public Health Commissioner (http://www.mass.gov/Eeohhs2/docs/dph/quality/drugcontrol/amend_antidotes.pdf) that the law be amended explicitly to permit first responders to administer epinephrine auto-injectors. So my impression is that this is a widely recognized side effect of Massachusetts public policy and not just the perception among EMTs who may have been fed a bad line.