PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE HIGHLIGHTS MURPHY’S ‘OVERDOSE PREVENTION AND PATIENT SAFETY ACT’
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In 1972, the Drug Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act created the 42 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 2, known simply as "Part 2." This policy was designed to protect the confidentiality of substance use in a medical record to encourage those with addiction disorders to seek treatment. However, nearly a half century later, in the midst of the worst drug crisis in
The Overdose Prevention and Patient Safety Act removes this antiquated roadblock and realigns all substance use treatment records used for payment, treatment, or healthcare operation to the requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), in lieu of Part 2. Additionally, the legislation provides important new protections against the inappropriate sharing of substance use treatment records, ensuring the highest level of privacy is maintained.
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His bill would allow information about a patient's history to be available to any doctor prescribing opioids. Such information is currently not easily accessible due to privacy regulations.
"People are baffled that it's not the current policy,"
Now, patients who have struggled with substance abuse in the past or are currently fighting addiction have to sign a release to allow their history of addiction to go on their record,
"If a person shows up into an emergency room and the doctors don't know ... they might make this mistake. And this has been a deadly mistake," he said.
The interim report's other recommendations include extending Medicaid coverage for drug treatment, mandating prescriber education, increasing the use of medication-assisted treatments, researching non-addictive pain medicines, spreading the use of naloxone and preventing fentanyl from crossing
"I'm looking for more substance and more action," he said. "Research is necessary. Investment is necessary."
During a national emergency, the secretary of the
Dr.
He said the county's "few specialty addiction programs can't meet all the needs."
Now, local agencies are competing for limited resources.
"We need to step up and combine all of our resources," she said.
One of her greatest concerns is the prevalence of the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl, which she said was a cause of almost every overdose-related death she's seen in the past year.
The interim report recommended measures to prevent additional fentanyl from crossing
"We have a serial killer and it's addiction,"
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