Senate Roundtable On Prescription Drug Abuse Crisis
February 13, 2012
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Monday Feb 13 @ 10:00am
(Long Island, NY) Senator Kemp Hannon (R, C, I, - Garden City), Chairman of the Senate Health Committee and Senator Jeff Klein, Chair of the Senate Committee on Alcoholism and Substance Abuse, will conduct a roundtable discussion on the prescription drug abuse crisis in New York State. Among the topics to be discussed is “real time” reporting by physicians and pharmacists when prescribing and dispensing narcotic prescription drugs such as oxycodone and hydrocodone.
The roundtable discussion will be held today, Monday, February 13, 2012 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in Room 124 of the Capitol.
This is the second public roundtable held by the two committees on this issue.
Among those expected to participate are: Parents of victims whose deaths were attributed to prescription drug abuse; representatives from: the New York State Department of Health Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement; the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit; Walgreen’s Pharmacy chain; a physician from Bronx-Lebanon Hospital; and representatives of drug abuse prevention organizations.
The Senate is also expected to act Monday on a package of bills to address the rapidly-growing problem of narcotic prescription drug abuse, as well as a resolution memorializing the Governor to declare April 28, 2012, Prescription Drug Take-Back Day.
Members of the news media are welcome to attend the roundtable discussion.
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