SB 107-18: Pain Patients' Right To Know Act (Passed)

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Hell is a bit chillier today as I actually wrote a bill inspired by an idea from DeadPrez. This is my administration's proposed alternative opioid/addiction prevention policy to the one proposed by Senator Spark, which recently died in the Senate. There are good ways to approach the addiction crisis. There are also many bad ones.

Subjecting our nation's well-respected doctors to further encroachment by the DEA, and thereby discouraging them from working to provide the best possible, and medically appropriate, care to their patients, is the wrong way to approach this crisis. Pain patients, many of whom suffer with lifelong conditions requiring these medications, always get the blunt end of the deal when government over-restricts these ultimately necessary treatments.

I don't believe we need to choose between tighter control of addictive substances and medical freedom. I believe that education can play a prominent role in reducing addiction and overdose numbers, and promoting both responsible use and storage.

This bill is not intended to be the silver bullet to defeating the opioid epidemic, but it will be a step in the right direction, and the availability of this information will combat addiction by empowering and educating patients.

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Requesting a final vote.

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"all patients must be required to sign a form acknowledging that their doctor has informed them of the following:
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Is there a law that forces doctors to inform them?

Presumably the risks would either be in writing, explained, or both, the same way acknowledgment of risk is necessary for certain medical procedures.