Relates to dispensing certain controlled substances for use by a person with a substance use disorder during certain emergency medical treatment, or to relieve acute withdrawal symptoms.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3883--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 30, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. HINCHEY, FAHY -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- reported
favorably from said committee and committed to the Committee on
Finance -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to dispensing certain
controlled substances for use by a person with a substance use disor-
der
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 3351 of the public health
2 law, as added by chapter 878 of the laws of 1972, are amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. Controlled substances may be prescribed for, or administered or
5 dispensed to an addict or habitual user:
6 (a) during emergency medical treatment unrelated to [abuse] such
7 substance use disorder or habitual use of controlled substances;
8 (b) who is a bona fide patient suffering from an incurable and fatal
9 disease such as cancer or advanced tuberculosis;
10 (c) who is aged, infirm, or suffering from serious injury or illness
11 and the withdrawal from controlled substances would endanger the life or
12 impede or inhibit the recovery of such person.
13 2. Controlled substances may be ordered for use by an addict or habit-
14 ual user by a practitioner and administered by a practitioner [or],
15 registered nurse, or emergency medical technician-paramedic, acting
16 within their scope of practice, to relieve acute withdrawal symptoms.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01964-03-5
