Bill Text: NY S07774 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Directs the department of health, in cooperation with various state offices and agencies to study, evaluate, and make recommendations concerning the prescribing and treatment history of persons in this state who suffered fatal and nonfatal opiate overdoses.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-18 - REFERRED TO ALCOHOLISM AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE [S07774 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S07774-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7774

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 18, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Alcoholism  and  Substance
          Abuse

        AN  ACT  to direct the department of health, in cooperation with various
          state offices and agencies to study, evaluate,  and  make  recommenda-
          tions  concerning  the prescribing and treatment history of persons in
          this state who suffered fatal and nonfatal opiate overdoses

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Study of the prescribing and treatment history of persons
     2  in this state who suffered fatal and nonfatal opiate overdoses. 1. Defi-
     3  nitions. For the purposes of this section:
     4    a. "Multiple provider episodes" shall mean  a  single  patient  having
     5  access to opiate prescriptions from more than one provider.
     6    b.  "Poly-substance  access"  shall mean a patient having simultaneous
     7  prescriptions for an opiate and a benzodiazepine or for  an  opiate  and
     8  another drug which may enhance the effects or the risks of drug abuse or
     9  overdose.
    10    c.  "Provider"  shall  include  any  individual practicing medicine as
    11  defined in section 6521 of the education law.
    12    2. Study. The department of health, in cooperation with the department
    13  of corrections  and  community  supervision,  the  office  of  addiction
    14  services  and supports, and the office of mental health, shall conduct a
    15  study of the prescribing and treatment history, including  court-ordered
    16  treatment or treatment within the criminal justice system, of persons in
    17  this  state who suffered fatal or nonfatal opiate overdoses beginning in
    18  the calendar years 2011 to 2019 and yearly thereafter. Such study shall,
    19  with regard to such persons, conduct or provide for an examination of:
    20    a. instances of multiple provider episodes;
    21    b. instances of poly-substance access;
    22    c. the overall opiate prescription history of  individuals,  including
    23  whether  such  individuals  had access to legal prescriptions for opiate
    24  drugs at the time of their overdoses;

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13522-03-9

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     1    d. whether individuals had previously undergone voluntary or  involun-
     2  tary treatment for substance addiction or behavioral health;
     3    e.  whether  individuals had attempted to enter but were denied access
     4  to treatment for substance addiction or behavioral health;
     5    f. whether individuals had received past  treatment  for  a  substance
     6  overdose; and
     7    g. whether any individuals had been previously detained or incarcerat-
     8  ed  and,  if  so, whether such individuals had received treatment during
     9  such detention or incarceration.
    10    3. Report. No later than one year after the  effective  date  of  this
    11  act,  the  department  of  health, in cooperation with the department of
    12  corrections and community supervision, the office of addiction  services
    13  and supports, and the office of mental health, shall deliver a report in
    14  an  aggregate  and  de-identified  form on trends discovered through the
    15  study conducted pursuant to subdivision  two  of  this  section  to  the
    16  governor,  the temporary president of the senate, and the speaker of the
    17  assembly.  The reports for the calendar year 2019 shall be completed and
    18  delivered to the governor, the temporary president of the senate and the
    19  speaker of the assembly by December 31, 2020. For future calendar years,
    20  the report shall be completed and delivered to such persons on or before
    21  December 31 of the following year.
    22    4. Powers. All other departments or agencies of the state or  subdivi-
    23  sions  thereof,  and  local  governments  shall,  at  the request of the
    24  commissioner of health, the commissioner of  corrections  and  community
    25  supervision,  the  commissioner  of the office of addiction services and
    26  supports, or the commissioner of the office of mental health, or at  the
    27  request  of  the  designee  of any such commissioner, provide expertise,
    28  assistance, and/or data that is relevant or material to  the  completion
    29  of the study directed to be completed by subdivision two of this section
    30  and  the  report  directed  to be completed by subdivision three of this
    31  section.
    32    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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