What's happening
This bill requires the identification of New York counties with high prescription opioid abuse and encourages distributing educational materials on opioid misuse at pharmacies in those areas.
Why it matters
Targets resources to areas most affected by opioid abuse. By requiring identification of counties with the highest rates of prescription opioid misuse, the bill ensures that efforts and educational materials are focused where the crisis is most severe, potentially increasing their impact.
Leverages pharmacists as frontline educators. Encouraging pharmacies in high-prevalence counties to distribute educational materials positions pharmacists—trusted and accessible healthcare providers—as key players in public health education about opioid risks and addiction.
Uses data-driven decision-making. The bill mandates the use of up-to-date, available data to identify problem areas, which helps ensure that interventions are based on current, evidence-based information rather than assumptions or outdated statistics.
Flexible implementation. The language gives the health commissioner discretion over notifying pharmacists and distributing materials, allowing for adaptability in response to changing patterns of opioid abuse or resource availability.
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Distribute Opioid Misuse Materials
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- Referred to alcoholism and drug abuse
- Print number 3074a
- Amend (t) and recommit to alcoholism and drug abuse
- Referred to alcoholism and drug abuse
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Distribute Opioid Abuse Info
In Senate Committee · Rules · Sponsor Andrew J. Lanza
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3074--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 26, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. CYMBROWITZ, CRESPO, CUSICK, GOODELL -- Multi- Sponsored by -- M. of A. ARROYO, BUCHWALD, 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 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to the distribution in counties with the most prevalent prescription opioid abuse of educational materials regarding the misuse of and addiction to prescription drugs
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision (j) of section 19.09 of the mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new paragraph 4 to read as follows:
(4) Utilizing data that is available to the office, including, but not limited to, information obtained pursuant to subdivision four of section thirty-three hundred nine-a of the public health law, the commissioner shall identify the counties in New York state where prescription opioid abuse is most prevalent. Pharmacists licensed by the state to dispense prescription drugs may be notified at the discretion of the commissioner in collaboration with the department of health, about the prevalence of opioid abuse in the county in which such pharmacists are located and encourage the facilities where prescription drugs are dispensed to distribute materials created or utilized pursuant to this subdivision.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06246-02-7
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