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ALBANY, NY (NEWS 10) – The New York State Senate Working Group on Heroin and Opioid Addiction has stated that the state could do more to combat the crisis of opioids. opioids.
The panel calls for stricter control of the distribution of opioids.
In its annual report, the panel called for 11 suggestions to help end the crisis:
- Increase resources to support the recruitment and retention of trained health professionals to treat substance use disorders;
- Improve the I-STOP monitoring program to improve inter-state surveillance of potential over-prescription of opioids;
- Maximize federal funding to help support more children in the state's new infant recovery centers;
- Reduce the cost of naloxone to ensure better access to this life-saving medicine, and improve public education and awareness about the use and latency of naloxone to ensure effective treatment;
- Explore the additional limitation of initial opioid prescriptions for acute pain to three days from the current seven days, with some medical exceptions;
- Require improved treatment plans for patients after the first month of using opioids, instead of waiting for the current 90-day standard;
- Address further drug abuse in rural areas of the state by improving access to treatment, for example by creating centers of excellence on substance-related disorders;
- Authorize professional collaboration programs between hospital, community, health care and SUD therapies to facilitate innovation in meeting community health care needs;
- Improve the use and collection of data to better identify, search for and prosecute high volume opioid prescribers;
- Strengthen and create appropriate criminal sanctions for drug traffickers selling substances causing death; and
- Expand health insurance options for marijuana for medical purposes as a method of reducing the overall use of opioid drugs.
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