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State legislation

Legislators in several U.S. states have pushed changes to state laws regarding naloxone co-prescribing. Many have passed and were signed into law. Examples include:

  • California. Signed into law in 2018, the California Naloxone Requirement Bill requires medical prescribers to offer a prescription for naloxone (or equivalent) to certain populations at higher risk of overdosing from opiate drugs.[1]
  • Colorado. The Colorado Harm Reduction Substance Use Disorders Law requires that the cost of opioid antagonists such as Narcan and Evzio be covered by health insurance.[2][3]
  • Illinois. The Illinois Opioids-Covid-19-Naloxone Resolution, a legislative bill that is still working its way through the Illinois State Senate[4], if passed would urge the state to study the increase in opiate overdose deaths in Illinois and would urge the state to propose changes to prescription rules to include co-prescription of naloxone to patients in high-risk groups of overdose.[5]
  • New Jersey. Still pending in the state Senate, the New Jersey Opioid Antidote Prescription Bill would require a co-prescription of naloxone or other opioid overdose agent with prescriptions for opioid medications for all patients who have a high risk of overdosing and tightens restrictions on the dispensing of opioid medications within the state.[6] Note that this is a distinction from other bills, which would merely allow or suggest co-prescription; in this bill, it would be required.
  • New York. A bill introduced in New York, the New York Mandatory Opioid Antagonist Prescription Bill, would require doctors and other prescribers to co-prescribe an opioid antagonist agent with the first opioid prescription of the year for certain high-risk patients.[7]
  • South Carolina.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Bill Text - AB-2760 Prescription drugs: prescribers: naloxone hydrochloride and other FDA-approved drugs". leginfo.legislature.ca.gov. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
  2. ^ Severance, Ryan. "Colorado bills addressing opioid crisis signed into law". The Pueblo Chieftain. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
  3. ^ "Harm Reduction Substance Use Disorders | Colorado General Assembly". leg.colorado.gov. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
  4. ^ "Illinois General Assembly - Bill Status for SR1184". www.ilga.gov. Retrieved 2020-06-14.
  5. ^ "Illinois General Assembly - Full Text of SR1184". www.ilga.gov. Retrieved 2020-06-14.
  6. ^ https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2020/Bills/S2500/2323_I1.PDF
  7. ^ https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2019/S5150B

Category:United States state health legislation

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