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Committee gives due-pass recommendation to House Bill 29 updating controlled-substances schedules
Summary
House Bill 29 would add multiple synthetic substances and several anabolic steroid derivatives to Idaho's schedules and place the new postpartum depression medication zuranolone into schedule IV; the committee recommended the bill be sent to the Senate floor with a due-pass.
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee voted to send House Bill 29 to the full Senate with a due-pass recommendation. The bill updates Idaho’s controlled-substances scheduling to add multiple newly identified illicit and synthetic substances and adds zuranolone (brand name Zurzuve), an FDA-approved treatment for postpartum depression, to Schedule IV.
Nikki Chopsky, health professions bureau chief at the Division of Occupational and Professional Licenses and executive officer for multiple licensing boards, presented…
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