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S02966 Summary:
| BILL NO | S02966A |
| SAME AS | SAME AS A00336-A |
| SPONSOR | HARCKHAM |
| COSPNSR | BROUK |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Amd §3309, Pub Health L | |
| Provides that with the first opioid prescription of each year for use in a setting other than a general hospital or nursing home under article twenty-eight of this chapter or facility under article thirty-one of the mental hygiene law, or when a practitioner is prescribing a controlled substance to a patient under the care of hospice, the prescriber shall prescribe an opioid antagonist when any of the following risk factors are present: a history of substance abuse disorder; high dose or cumulative prescriptions that result in 90 morphine milligram equivalents or higher per day; concurrent use of opioids and benzodiazepine or nonbenzodiazepine sedative hypnotics. | |