NY State Senate Bill 2019-S653

Senate Bill S653

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Requires the department to draft guidelines for the transition of patients from substances with a high risk of addiction to those with a low risk

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2019-S653 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A6579
Current Committee:: Senate Health
Law Section:: Public Health Law
Laws Affected:: Add §3351-a, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2011-2012: S6181
2013-2014: S480
2015-2016: S647
2017-2018: S1814

2019-S653 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the department to draft guidelines for the transition of patients from substances with a high risk of addiction to those with a low risk.

2019-S653 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S653

SPONSOR: KENNEDY
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the public health law, in relation to creating medicinal
guidelines to aid in the administration of prescription drugs to
patients with high risks of addiction

 
PURPOSE:

This bill requires the Department of Health to draft guidelines for the
transition of patients from substances with a high risk of addiction to
those with a low risk of addiction.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 defines the bill as Michael David Israel Addiction Transition
Law.

Section 2 directs the Department of Health to promulgate guidelines for

transitioning patients from high risk of addiction pain management
solutions to low risk of addiction pain management solutions.

Section 3 is the enacting clause.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Michael David Israel, the son of Avi and Julie Israel, was one of many
young people across New York State who battled with prescription drug
abuse. On June 4, 2011 Michael David Israel tragically took his own
life.

Michael's story is not a unique one. Nationally deaths from prescription
opiates have tripled since 1999, and overdoses from prescription opiates
now hospitalize more people each year than cocaine or heroin. Addi-
tionally, in a recent University at Buffalo study of 75 addicts, 41
percent reported their addiction began with medicine prescribed legally
by their doctors.

The rate at which doctors are prescribing opiates is also alarming. In
New York State 37 prescriptions are written for hydrocodone, fentanyl,
and oxycodone for every 100 New Yorkers. In Western New York that rate
is almost double, with 65 prescriptions being written for every 100
residents. These statistics are concerning, and in some regards alarm-
ing.

This bill would require the Department of Health develop a set of guide-
lines to help doctors transition patients from high risk of addiction
pain management solutions to low risk of addiction pain management
solutions. In some cases, long-term use of opiate pain killers is neces-
sary, but in many cases alternative methods can be used to manage the
patients pain while avoiding the potential for a damaging addiction to
develop.

This bill does not require doctors to implement these strategies and
still leaves the decision for how best to care for the patient up to
their doctor, but it does provide doctors with an important resource.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2012: S.6181/A.9093 Referred to Health
2013-14: S.480 Referred to Health
2015-16: S.647 Referred to Health
2017-18: S.1814 Referred to Health

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

Minimal fiscal implications.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have
become law.

2019-S653 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    653
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 9, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. KENNEDY, KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to creating medicinal
   guidelines to aid in  the  administration  of  prescription  drugs  to
   patients with high risks of addiction
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited  as  the  "Michael
 David Israel addiction transition law".
   §  2.  The public health law is amended by adding a new section 3351-a
 to read as follows:
   § 3351-A. GUIDELINES. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL PROMULGATE  MEDICAL  GUIDE-
 LINES  AND  REGULATIONS  FOR  PERSONS  AUTHORIZED  UNDER  THIS  TITLE TO
 DISTRIBUTE OR DISPENSE SUBSTANCES CONTROLLED UNDER THIS  TITLE  FOR  THE
 PURPOSE OF HELPING SUCH PERSONS TRANSITION PATIENTS FROM PAIN MANAGEMENT
 SUBSTANCES  WITH  A  HIGH RISK OF ADDICTION TO PAIN MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS
 THAT PRESENT A LOW RISK OF ADDICTION OR DO NOT INVOLVE SUBSTANCES  REGU-
 LATED UNDER THIS TITLE.
   §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
 this  act  on  its effective date are authorized to be made on or before
 such effective date.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02140-01-9

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Timothy M. Kennedy