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- Referred to health
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Title of bill
An act to amend the public health law, in relation to the provision of counseling services by pharmacies to persons purchasing hypodermic needles
Purpose or general idea of bill
To reduce the transmission of HIV/hepatitis C infection among injection drug users and connect users to treatment by allowing pharmacists to offering counseling and referral services to persons purchasing hypodermic.
Summary of specific provisions
Sections one and two of the bill amends PHL§ 3381 to clarify pharmacies are allowed at their professional discretion to provide counseling and referral services to customers purchasing hypodermic syringes for the purpose of preventing and treating substance abuse, the transmission of hepatitis C and HIV and providing pre and post exposure prophylaxis.
Section 2 provides for an immediate effective date.
Justification
This bill would enact recommendations of the Blueprint adopted by the Governor's broad-based End-the-Epidemic Task Force in 2015. Since the 1990's there has been a dramatic decrease in the number of HIV infections among injection drug users. This is due in part to the success of the state's Expanded Syringe Access Program (ESAP). ESAP results in the reduction of blood-borne diseases by enhancing access to sterile syringes. This legislation expands upon the success by allowing pharmacists participating in the ESAP program to provide counseling and referral services to those purchasing hypodermic syringes.
Prior legislative history
New Bill
Fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
Immediately.
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