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- Print number 7383a
- Amend (t) and recommit to mental health and developmental disabilities
- Referred to mental health and developmental disabilities
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Provides that no antidepressant or antianxiety medication which has an increased risk of suicidal behavior in individuals shall be dispensed without consultation and other information to outpatients
In Assembly Committee · Mental Health · Sponsor John T. McDonald III
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S7383A
Title of bill
An act to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to the prescription of antidepressant and antianxiety medications which have an increased risk of suicidal behavior
Purpose
Provides that no antidepressant or antianxiety medication prescribed in an outpatient setting which has an increased risk of suicidality shall be dispensed for a first-time patient, before having first had a consultation with supporting educational literature
Summary of provisions
Section 1 is amended by adding a new section 7.45, to include several instructions regarding the dispensing of an antidepressant or antianxiety medication with suicidal tendencies as an undesired side effect. During the required consultation, pharmacists will provide literature with the toll-free suicide prevention telephone number, suicide prevention website and an information pamphlet drafted by the Department of Mental Health. Other provisions include: Requirement of parent or guardian if prescribed patient is under 17 and permission to the Department to regulate and prepare all material.
Section 2: Effective Date.
Justification
Each year the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention collect data regarding mortality in the United States, including deaths by suicide. In 2010, 38,364 suicides were reported. In that year, someone in the country died by suicide ever 13.7 minutes.
Suicidal tendencies are increasing as a potential side effect in many prescriptions -- those that can cause an individual's personality and physical well being to negatively change.
By educating the patient as well as kin upon prescription pickup, this legislation aims to save the lives of individuals who perhaps otherwise would have taken their life.
Legislative history
New Bill.
Fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the 90th day after it shall have become a law.
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