Nevada: group of docs have found THEIR BALLS AND THEIR BACKBONES ?
It will take several months of workshops to iron out regulations that implement Nevada’s new controls over opioid drug prescriptions.
The Nevada Board of Medical Examiners issued a statement Thursday saying a public workshop on the proposed disciplinary regulations revealed considerable confusion about how to implement AB474’s mandates including, potentially, negative impacts on patients as well as medical practitioners.
According to the board statement, they’re forming a working group to study how the mandates of AB474 will impact all those involved. The group will include at least two medical board members, a representative from the legislature, representatives from the state Medical association as well as industry stakeholders.
Their goal, according to the board will be to produce a draft regulation that meet the intent of AB474 while serving the needs of patients and support licensees in their medical practices.
AB474 is designed to get a better handle on the opioid crisis by putting controls in place over prescribing practices including requiring treatment plans that move patients off of the extremely addictive drugs. It limits new patients to a 14-day initial prescription for opioids and says without valid cause, no patient should be on those drugs for more than a year.
It also requires much more extensive discussions with patients about the use, dangers and potential abuse of opioid drugs.
In addition, it mandates much more extensive reporting of who’s prescribing the drugs and how much practitioners are prescribing and builds an extensive database to prevent patients from doctor shopping to get multiple prescriptions from several doctors as well as identify doctors prescribing to much of those drugs.
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Explain to me .Opioid rxs have plummeted but ODs have increased.
They’re still missing the point that it’s not legally prescribed medication that are killing people but heroin and fentanyl ANALOGS!! Quit putting addicts before pain patients!
Agree 100 percent
God I hope sooo,,,,,,and THANK U to all those who work sooo very hard om Vegas to shed light to our plight,,,I hope for all that finally some doc,,,did find there balls,,,and started thinking w/there brains who inhumane it has been for all in forced physical pain from a body encapsulated in any conditions that causes physical pain!!!mary