Bill > HB215

This bill has several key provisions: 1. It requires the state to adopt rules providing medical assistance coverage for screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment services for eligible enrollees to identify individuals with symptoms of alcohol/substance use disorders or other mental health conditions. 2. It amends existing law to require practitioners to obtain and review reports from the state's prescription monitoring program before prescribing opioids or benzodiazepines (a class of sedative drugs) for the first time to a patient, and at least once every three months for established patients continuously prescribed these medications. 3. It requires county sheriffs or jail administrators, subject to available funding and resources, to provide medication-assisted treatment (using FDA-approved medications) for persons under their supervision for opioid addiction by January 1, 2022. The bill aims to improve access to behavioral health screening and treatment, while also addressing the safe prescribing of controlled substances like opioids and benzodiazepines.

Health and Social Services, Justice

https://www.nmlegis.gov/lcs/legislation.aspx?chamber=H&legtype=B&legno=215&year=21