Bill Text: NY A00881 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the distribution of educational materials regarding the misuse of and addiction to prescription drugs.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-4)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-08 - REFERRED TO ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE [A00881 Detail]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          881
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    January 8, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. CYMBROWITZ, CRESPO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
         A.  ARROYO,  BORELLI,  COOK, CROUCH, FARRELL, GUNTHER, HIKIND, HOOPER,
         JAFFEE, LUPINACCI, MAGEE, MOSLEY, MOYA,  PEOPLES-STOKES,  RA,  RIVERA,
         TITUS  --  read  once  and referred to the Committee on Alcoholism and
         Drug Abuse
       AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to the  distribution
         of  educational  materials  regarding  the  misuse of and addiction to
         prescription drugs
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  19.09  of  the  mental hygiene law is amended by
    2  adding a new subdivision (j) to read as follows:
    3    (J) (1) THE COMMISSIONER, IN CONSULTATION  WITH  THE  COMMISSIONER  OF
    4  HEALTH,  SHALL  CREATE  OR  UTILIZE EXISTING EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS WHICH
    5  SHALL INCLUDE INFORMATION REGARDING THE DANGERS OF MISUSE AND THE POTEN-
    6  TIAL FOR ADDICTION TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS, TREATMENT RESOURCES AVAILABLE,
    7  AND THE PROPER WAY TO DISPOSE OF UNUSED PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.  SUCH  MATE-
    8  RIALS SHALL BE MADE AVAILABLE TO PHARMACISTS AND MAY BE DISTRIBUTED WITH
    9  ANY  PRESCRIBED  DRUG  THAT  IS  A  CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE BY A PHARMACIST
   10  LICENSED BY THE STATE TO  DISPENSE  PRESCRIPTION  DRUGS  TO  THE  PUBLIC
   11  PURSUANT  TO  SECTION SIXTY-EIGHT HUNDRED FIVE OF THE EDUCATION LAW. THE
   12  INFORMATION CONTAINED IN SUCH MATERIALS SHALL  ALSO  BE  POSTED  ON  THE
   13  WEBSITE OF THE OFFICE AND THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. SUCH MATERIALS SHALL
   14  BE PROVIDED IN LANGUAGES OTHER THAN ENGLISH AS DEEMED APPROPRIATE BY THE
   15  COMMISSIONERS.
   16    (2) UTILIZING DATA THAT IS AVAILABLE TO THE OFFICE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
   17  LIMITED TO, INFORMATION OBTAINED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION
   18  THIRTY-THREE  HUNDRED  NINE-A OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW, THE COMMISSIONER
   19  SHALL IDENTIFY THE COUNTIES IN NEW YORK STATE WHERE PRESCRIPTION  OPIOID
   20  ABUSE  IS  MOST PREVALENT. PHARMACISTS LICENSED BY THE STATE TO DISPENSE
   21  PRESCRIPTION DRUGS MAY BE NOTIFIED AT THE DISCRETION OF THE COMMISSIONER
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD05258-01-5
       A. 881                              2
    1  IN COLLABORATION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, ABOUT THE PREVALENCE  OF
    2  OPIOID  ABUSE  IN  THE  COUNTY IN WHICH SUCH PHARMACISTS ARE LOCATED AND
    3  ENCOURAGE THE FACILITIES  WHERE  PRESCRIPTION  DRUGS  ARE  DISPENSED  TO
    4  DISTRIBUTE  MATERIALS  CREATED  OR UTILIZED PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH ONE OF
    5  THIS SUBDIVISION.
    6    S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    7  have become a law.