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House passes bill requiring doctors to check database before long-term opioid prescriptions
Summary
The House passed House Bill 15, which requires prescribers to check the state prescription database and contact other prescribers when overlapping long-term opioid prescriptions exist; sponsors say the measure targets high‑risk situations and exempts short‑term/emergency prescribing.
The Utah House of Representatives on Monday passed House Bill 15, the Controlled Substance Amendments, by Representative Ward. The bill requires a prescriber who is about to write a long‑term opioid prescription to check the state prescription monitoring database and, where another long‑term high‑risk prescription exists from a different provider, contact that other provider and document the interaction in the medical record.
Supporters said the change targets…
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