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Legislators consider scheduling gabapentin after DOJ and crime-lab testimony on rising abuse
Summary
Witnesses told the House Judiciary Committee that gabapentin is increasingly detected in toxicology casework and polydrug incidents; House Bill 41 would add gabapentin to state controlled-substance schedule V to aid enforcement and toxicology tracking.
Curtis Schomer, on behalf of the Department of Justice, opened a hearing on House Bill 41, a request to add gabapentin to Schedule V of Montana's controlled substances. Schomer described gabapentin as a central nervous system depressant commonly used for seizures and neuropathic pain and said the change was requested because the state is seeing more abuse and better testing capability.
Attorney General Austin Knudson and multiple law-enforcement groups supported the bill. Knudson said gabapentin has become…
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