S. 2256
IntroducedCo-Prescribing Saves Lives Act of 2016
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Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 442.
4/27/2016 • Senate
Summary
Co-Prescribing Saves Lives Act of 2016
(Sec. 2) This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to provide information to certain prescribers on best practices for prescribing naloxone for patients receiving chronic opioid therapy or being treated for opioid use disorders. (Naloxone is a prescription drug used to rapidly reverse an overdose of opioids, which are drugs with effects similar to opium, such as heroin and certain pain medications.) The information must be provided to prescribers in federally qualified health centers and the health care facilities of the Indian Health Service.
The Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs must provide such information to prescribers in their medical facilities.Reported to Senate with amendment(s) • 4/27/2016
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Originated in the Senate
Introduced
November 5, 2015
Committee Review
March 16, 2016
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
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