Requires health insurers to provide coverage for non-opioid treatments utilized for pain management including, but not limited to a drug or biological product that is indicated to produce analgesia without acting upon the body's opioid receptors that has demonstrated the ability to replace, reduce, or avoid opioid use or the quantity of opioids prescribed; or an implantable, reusable, or disposable medical device for the intended use of managing or treating pain that has demonstrated the ability to replace, reduce, or avoid opioid use or the quantity of opioids prescribed.
Relates to presumptions for the death of an injured worker due to opioid overdose where that injured worker was prescribed opioids as a result of his or her workplace injury.
Relates to presumptions for the death of an injured worker due to opioid overdose where that injured worker was prescribed opioids as a result of his or her workplace injury.
Requires practitioners to provide counselling to patients about the potential addictive properties of opioids prior to prescribing such medications; requires pharmacists to provide counselling to patients about the potential addictive properties of opioids at the time a prescription for opioids is filled.
Requires the distribution of an information card or sheet with Schedule II opioids.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for opioid antagonists and devices.
Requires health insurers to provide coverage for opioid antagonists and devices.
Requires a personal use pharmaceutical disposal system be provided at the time of dispensing an opioid prescription at no cost to the ultimate user of such prescribed opioid.
Requires a personal use pharmaceutical disposal system be provided at the time of dispensing an opioid prescription at no cost to the ultimate user of such prescribed opioid.
Requires facilities that provide treatment for substance use disorders to have at least one practitioner qualified to administer or prescribe buprenorphine to individuals in their care with substance use disorders related to opioids.