Senate Bill S3521

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires health practitioners to discuss with patients the risks associated with certain pain medications before prescribing such medications

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Health Committee


  • 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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2023-S3521 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1227
Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §§3309-b & 3309-c, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S4277, A7285
2021-2022: S6043, A3405

2023-S3521 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires health practitioners to discuss with patients the risks associated with certain pain medications before prescribing such medications; requires that for the first opioid analgesic prescription of a calendar year the prescribing physician shall counsel the patient on the risks of overdose.

2023-S3521 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S3521 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3521
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 31, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring health
   practitioners to discuss  with  patients  the  risks  associated  with
   certain  pain  medications before prescribing such medications; and in
   relation to opioid analgesic prescriptions
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
 3309-b to read as follows:
   § 3309-B. PRACTITIONER AND PATIENT DISCUSSIONS; OPIOID  PRESCRIPTIONS.
 1. PRIOR TO ISSUING THE INITIAL PRESCRIPTION OF A SCHEDULE II CONTROLLED
 SUBSTANCE  FOR THE TREATMENT OF PAIN OR ANY OTHER OPIOID DRUG WHICH IS A
 PRESCRIPTION DRUG FOR ACUTE OR CHRONIC PAIN AND AGAIN PRIOR  TO  ISSUING
 THE  THIRD PRESCRIPTION OF THE COURSE OF TREATMENT, A PRACTITIONER SHALL
 DISCUSS WITH THE PATIENT, OR THE PATIENT'S PARENT  OR  GUARDIAN  IF  THE
 PATIENT  IS UNDER EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND IS NOT AN EMANCIPATED MINOR,
 THE RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DRUGS BEING PRESCRIBED, INCLUDING BUT  NOT
 LIMITED TO:
   (A)  THE  RISKS OF ADDICTION AND OVERDOSE ASSOCIATED WITH OPIOID DRUGS
 AND THE DANGERS OF TAKING OPIOID DRUGS WITH ALCOHOL, BENZODIAZEPINES AND
 OTHER CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS;
   (B) THE REASONS WHY THE PRESCRIPTION IS NECESSARY;
   (C) ALTERNATIVE TREATMENTS THAT MAY BE AVAILABLE; AND
   (D) THE RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE USE OF THE DRUGS  BEING  PRESCRIBED,
 SPECIFICALLY  THAT  OPIOIDS  ARE  HIGHLY  ADDICTIVE,  EVEN WHEN TAKEN AS
 PRESCRIBED, THAT THERE IS A RISK OF DEVELOPING A PHYSICAL OR  PSYCHOLOG-
 ICAL  DEPENDENCE  ON  THE  CONTROLLED  SUBSTANCE,  AND THAT THE RISKS OF
 TAKING MORE OPIOIDS THAN PRESCRIBED, OR  MIXING  SEDATIVES,  BENZODIAZE-
 PINES   OR  ALCOHOL  WITH  OPIOIDS,  CAN  RESULT  IN  FATAL  RESPIRATORY
 DEPRESSION.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01235-01-3
              

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