We are pleased that legislation we helped craft that puts in place pill and dosage limits for initial prescriptions to opiate-based painkillers, strengthens the state’s Prescription Monitoring Program and requires the Health Director to put in place a required training program as a condition of being licensed to prescribed opiates passed the General Assembly and was signed into law by the Governor. Click on S2823 Sub A below to read the whole law:
Senate Bill No. 2823 SUB A as amended
BY Archambault, Lombardi, Lynch Prata, McCaffrey, Metts
ENTITLED, AN ACT RELATING TO FOOD AND DRUGS — UNIFORM CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT–REGULATION OF MANUFACTURING, DISTRIBUTING, PRESCRIBING, ADMINISTERING, AND DISPENSING CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES (Requires pharmacies to transmit prescription information to the prescription monitoring data base within twenty-four hours of dispensing an opioid. Provides limits on amounts of opoids to be prescribed.)