California Business and Professions Code

§ 741

BPC § 741 Effective Sep 5, 2019Div. 2 · Ch. 1 · Art. 10.7

Statute text

(a)Notwithstanding any other law, when prescribing an opioid or benzodiazepine medication to a patient, a prescriber shall do the following:

(1)Offer the patient a prescription for naloxone hydrochloride or another drug approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for the complete or partial reversal of opioid-induced respiratory depression when one or more of the following conditions are present:

(A)The prescription dosage for the patient is 90 or more morphine milligram equivalents of an opioid medication per day.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2019, Ch. 231, Sec. 2. (AB 714) Effective September 5, 2019.