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Lawmakers hear bill to create non-opioid directive form so patients can opt out of opioid prescriptions
Summary
During a public hearing, Representative Emerson Levy and supporters described House Bill 3211A, which would require the Oregon Health Authority to develop an electronically available non-opioid directive form and create civil and criminal immunity in specified circumstances for clinicians who withhold opioids when a directive exists.
The Senate Committee on Early Childhood and Behavioral Health held a public hearing Wednesday on House Bill 3211A, which would require the Oregon Health Authority to develop a publicly available non-opioid directive form and provide specified civil and criminal immunity for individuals who do not prescribe or administer opioids based on a completed non-opioid directive.
Representative Emerson Levy, the chief sponsor, told the committee the directive is…
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