Requires a doctor to obtain the informed consent of patients prior to prescribing psychiatric drugs notifying the patients of possible adverse effects of the drug.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4495
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 4, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. MONTESANO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. McDO-
NOUGH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring notifi-
cation and the informed consent of the patient prior to prescribing
psychiatric drugs
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section
2 3346 to read as follows:
3 § 3346. Psychiatric drug informed consent. No doctor shall prescribe
4 an antipsychotic, antidepressant, hallucinogen, or mood stabilizer drug,
5 brand or generic, as defined in section thirty-three hundred six of this
6 article, for the treatment of psychiatric disorders or conditions with-
7 out the prior notification and the signed informed consent of the
8 patient informing the patient of any possible adverse effects of the
9 drug and the interaction with other medications the patient is currently
10 prescribed.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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