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This bill provides certain limits on the amount of opioid medication that may be prescribed to a patient. Under the bill, whenever a health care practitioner or physician prescribes an opioid medication to a patient, the health care practitioner or physician is to be prohibited from prescribing more than a seven-day supply of the medication. However, if a health care practitioner or physician determines, in his or her professional judgment, that the prescription of more than a seven-day supply of opioid medication is necessary to treat a patient's acute medical condition, or is necessary to provide the patient with adequate management of chronic pain, the practitioner may issue a prescription of more than a seven-day supply of opioid medication. The quantity of opioid medication prescribed under this bill is not to exceed the amounts specified in section 1 of P.L.1997, c.249 (C.45:9-22.19), and is to be consistent with any other applicable State and federal prescribing requirements.

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Paul Kanitra (R)*,  Greg McGuckin (R)*, 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Health Committee (on 01/09/2024)

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