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Related legislation

Legislators in several U.S. states have pushed changes to state laws regarding naloxone co-prescribing. Examples include:

• Illinois. In the state senate, SB3659 (introduced in February 2020) would require providers to offer a naloxone hydrochloride prescription to patients at risk of overdosing from opiate prescriptions or opiate street drugs. The bill would penalize or sanction doctors and providers who did not comply. The bill, however, has not been referred to a committee for consideration.
• New Jersey. Matching were introduced in both the New Jersey State House and State Senate shortly before the legislative session was closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The bills severely limit and control narcotic pain medication prescriptions and would require an annual prescription to an opioid overdose medication.
• New York. In February, the New York State Senate passed a package of bills to fight the opioid crisis, including a bill (S. 5150-B) that would require prescribers to prescribe patients an opioid antagonist with their very first opioid prescription. Another bill was introduced in the state Assembly (5603-B) that would do the same.
• South Carolina. Twenty-five state representatives in the South Carolina House sponsored a bill, Bill 4711, that would require prescribers to provide patient education about overdoses and offer a naloxone (or equivalent) prescription to certain ask-risk patients. The bill passed out of a committee and is up for a full House vote.