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Assembly Bill A672

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Requires that for the first opioid analgesic prescription of a calendar year the prescribing physician shall counsel the patient on the risks of overdose

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2019-A672 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4096
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §3309-b, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A7812
2017-2018: A327, S5879
2021-2022: A337

2019-A672 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that for the first opioid analgesic prescription of a calendar year, the prescribing physician shall counsel the patient on the risks of overdose, and inform the patient of the availability of an opioid antagonist, including, but not limited to, naloxone.

2019-A672 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    672
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 9, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BRAUNSTEIN  -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  opioid  analgesic
   prescriptions
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
 3309-b to read as follows:
   § 3309-B. OPIOID ANALGESIC PRESCRIPTION. 1. FOR THE FIRST OPIOID ANAL-
 GESIC  PRESCRIPTION OF A CALENDAR YEAR THAT IS GREATER THAN A ONE WEEK'S
 SUPPLY, THE PRESCRIBING PHYSICIAN SHALL COUNSEL THE PATIENT ON THE RISKS
 OF OVERDOSE, AND INFORM THE PATIENT OF THE  AVAILABILITY  OF  AN  OPIOID
 ANTAGONIST, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, NALOXONE.
   2.  FOR  THE  PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL HAVE
 THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   (A) "OPIOID ANALGESICS" MEANS THE MEDICINES  BUPRENORPHINE,  BUTORPHA-
 NOL,   CODEINE,  HYDROCODONE,  HYDROMORPHONE,  LEVORPHANOL,  MEPERIDINE,
 METHADONE, MORPHINE, NALBUPHINE,  OXYCODONE,  OXYMORPHONE,  PENTAZOCINE,
 PROPOXYPHENE AS WELL AS THEIR BRAND NAMES, ISOMERS AND COMBINATIONS.
   (B) "OPIOID ANTAGONIST" MEANS AN FDA-APPROVED DRUG THAT, WHEN ADMINIS-
 TERED,  NEGATES  OR  NEUTRALIZES IN WHOLE OR IN PART THE PHARMACOLOGICAL
 EFFECTS OF AN OPIOID IN THE BODY. THE OPIOID ANTAGONIST  IS  LIMITED  TO
 NALOXONE  OR  OTHER  MEDICATIONS  APPROVED  BY  THE  DEPARTMENT FOR THIS
 PURPOSE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
 tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
 completed on or before such effective date.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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