Assembly Bill A8933

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Directs a study and report concerning the prescribing and treatment history of persons in this state who suffered fatal and nonfatal opiate overdoses

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A8933 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7774
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Health
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A606, S2980

2019-A8933 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the department of health, in cooperation with various state offices and agencies to study, evaluate, and make recommendations concerning the prescribing and treatment history of persons in this state who suffered fatal and nonfatal opiate overdoses.

2019-A8933 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8933
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 2, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to direct the department of health, in cooperation  with  various
   state  offices  and  agencies to study, evaluate, and make recommenda-
   tions concerning the prescribing and treatment history of  persons  in
   this state who suffered fatal and nonfatal opiate overdoses

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Study of the prescribing and treatment history  of  persons
 in this state who suffered fatal and nonfatal opiate overdoses. 1. Defi-
 nitions. For the purposes of this section:
   a.  "Multiple  provider  episodes"  shall mean a single patient having
 access to opiate prescriptions from more than one provider.
   b. "Poly-substance access" shall mean a  patient  having  simultaneous
 prescriptions  for  an  opiate and a benzodiazepine or for an opiate and
 another drug which may enhance the effects or the risks of drug abuse or
 overdose.
   c. "Provider" shall include  any  individual  practicing  medicine  as
 defined in section 6521 of the education law.
   2. Study. The department of health, in cooperation with the department
 of  corrections  and  community  supervision,  the  office  of addiction
 services and supports, and the office of mental health, shall conduct  a
 study  of the prescribing and treatment history, including court-ordered
 treatment or treatment within the criminal justice system, of persons in
 this state who suffered fatal or nonfatal opiate overdoses beginning  in
 the calendar years 2011 to 2019 and yearly thereafter. Such study shall,
 with regard to such persons, conduct or provide for an examination of:
   a. instances of multiple provider episodes;
   b. instances of poly-substance access;
   c.  the  overall opiate prescription history of individuals, including
 whether such individuals had access to legal  prescriptions  for  opiate
 drugs at the time of their overdoses;
   d.  whether individuals had previously undergone voluntary or involun-
 tary treatment for substance addiction or behavioral health;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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