Bill > H4725

This bill aims to bolster the Commonwealth's efforts to address the ongoing opioid crisis in Massachusetts. Key provisions of the bill include: - Establishing a commission on community-based behavioral health promotion and prevention to promote positive mental, emotional, and behavioral health and prevent mental health and substance use disorders among residents. - Creating a community-based behavioral health promotion and prevention trust fund to provide grants to community organizations for evidence-based prevention programs and to support underserved populations. - Authorizing the executive office of health and human services to develop and implement a statewide program to provide remote consultations to primary care providers for persons over 17 who exhibit symptoms of a substance use disorder. - Requiring acute care hospitals and satellite emergency facilities to have protocols and capacity to provide appropriate interventions and offer opioid agonist treatment prior to discharge for patients who present with an opioid-related overdose. - Expanding the state's prescription monitoring program to include additional schedule IV and V drugs and requiring providers to utilize the program prior to issuing certain prescriptions. - Establishing a pilot program in two state prisons to provide medication-assisted treatment for substance use disorder, with reporting requirements. The bill also includes various provisions related to nursing licensure, workers' compensation, and insurance coverage requirements. Overall, it aims to strengthen the Commonwealth's systems of prevention, intervention, and treatment for substance use disorders.

https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/H4725