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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5138
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 630
Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH
Introduced by:
REP. BUCKBEE, 67th Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING THE PRESCRIBING OF PSYCHIATRIC
DRUGS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That the general statutes be amended to establish a centralized 1
database for the monitoring of psychiatric drug prescriptions to enable 2
a prescribing practitioner, when prescribing a psychiatric drug to a 3
patient, to determine whether the patient is taking any other 4
psychiatric drug that does not interact well with the drug the 5
prescribing practitioner intends to prescribe. 6
Statement of Purpose:
To reduce the risk to patients of taking psychiatric drugs that do not
interact well with other psychiatric drugs the patient is taking.