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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 59H.P. 23 House of Representatives, January 8, 2025
An Act to Ban the Drug Tianeptine
(EMERGENCY)
Received by the Clerk of the House on January 6, 2025. Referred to the Committee on
Criminal Justice and Public Safety pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed pursuant to
Joint Rule 401.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative LEMELIN of Chelsea. Page 1 - 132LR0426(01)1 acts and resolves of the Legislature do not
2 become effective until 90 days after adjournment unless enacted as emergencies; and
3 tianeptine is a highly addictive drug; and
4 the use of tianeptine increases the risk of overdose deaths; and
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6 deaths; and
7 in the judgment of the Legislature, these facts create an emergency within
8 the meaning of the Constitution of Maine and require the following legislation as
9 immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety; now,
10 therefore,
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12 as amended by PL 2013, c. 194, §7, is
13 further amended by amending subparagraph (14) to read:
14 (14) Paramethoxyethylamphetamine, PMEA; and
15 as enacted by PL 2013, c. 194, §8, is
16 amended by amending subparagraph (15) in the first blocked paragraph to read:
17 This subparagraph does not include a drug listed in section 1102 or a drug approved
18 by the United States Food and Drug Administration.; and
19 is enacted to read:
20 Q. Tianeptine.
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22 takes effect when approved.
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24 This bill adds tianeptine as a Schedule W drug.
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