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Damaging State Legislation Regarding Opioids: The Need To Scrutinize Sources Of Inaccurate Information Provided To Lawmakers
On January 22, 2019, a Massachusetts State Representative introduced House Bill 3656, “An Act requiring practitioners to be held responsible for patient opioid addiction”. Section 50 of this proposed legislation reads, “A practitioner, who issues a prescription for a controlled substance placed in Schedule II, which contains an opiate, shall be liable to the patient for whom the written prescription was written, for the payment of the first 90 days of in-patient hospitalization costs if the patient becomes addicted and is subsequently hospitalized”. The bill was assigned to a joint House/Senate committee, and the Representative testified in a hearing of the Joint Commission of the Judiciary on September 17, 2019. According to the Representative, the Joint Commission “didn’t vote on it, and I don’t suspect it will ever get a vote”. After speaking to him, he acknowledged that the bill would not be resurrected. When asked of the source of medical information on which he based his bill, the Representative mentioned the name of a nationally known addiction psychiatrist. Unfortunately, this psychiatrist, to the best of our knowledge, had no training or clinical experience in treating chronic pain, nor has he published research on the topic area.
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