Limits the initial prescription of a controlled substance for the alleviation of acute pain to a seven-day supply for users twenty years of age or older and to a three-day supply for users nineteen years of age or younger.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3820--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 31, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD, ORTIZ, MONTESANO, FRIEND, JAFFEE,
JONES, BARRON, LUPARDO, D'URSO, WALLACE, SEAWRIGHT, SANTABARBARA,
STECK, GALEF, FAHY, CAHILL, BLANKENBUSH -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to limiting the
initial prescription of a controlled substance for the alleviation of
acute pain to a seven-day supply for users twenty years of age or
older and to a three-day supply for users nineteen years of age or
younger
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 5 of section 3331 of the
2 public health law, as added by section 1 of part C of chapter 71 of the
3 laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
4 (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of this subdivi-
5 sion, a practitioner, within the scope of his or her professional opin-
6 ion or discretion, may not prescribe more than a seven-day supply of any
7 schedule II, III, or IV opioid to an ultimate user who is twenty years
8 of age or older, or more than a three-day supply of any schedule II,
9 III, or IV opioid to an ultimate user who is nineteen years of age or
10 younger upon the initial consultation or treatment of such user for
11 acute pain. Upon any subsequent consultations for the same pain, the
12 practitioner may issue, in accordance with paragraph (a) of this subdi-
13 vision, any appropriate renewal, refill, or new prescription for the
14 opioid or any other drug.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07450-02-9
