3.0.0 1657 2023-01-11T13:23:44Z 2023-01-11T13:23:44Z Senate S S 2013-11-06 113 scnc00 United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control Senate Other Hearings by 2014-05-14T18:30:00Z sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2013-11-06T17:41:41Z 2014-05-14 scnc00 United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control Senate Committee on United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control. Hearings held. Committee 2013-11-06 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2013-11-06 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress U000039 Sen. Udall, Tom [D-NM] TOM UDALL D NM N C001070 Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA] Bob Casey D PA 2014-02-27 False Health Child health Congressional oversight Correctional facilities and imprisonment Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation Drug trafficking and controlled substances Drug, alcohol, tobacco use Emergency medical services and trauma care Government studies and investigations Health information and medical records Health personnel Health programs administration and funding Health promotion and preventive care Licensing and registrations Medicaid Medical education Medical tests and diagnostic methods Medicare Military medicine Prescription drugs Solid waste and recycling Veterans' medical care Health 00 2013-11-06 Introduced in Senate 2015-03-31T21:59:17Z Increasing the Safety of Prescription Drug Use Act of 2013 - Amends the Public Health Service Act, with respect to state databases for controlled substance monitoring programs, to require the state to: (1) ensure that its database is interoperable with other such programs and electronic health records and provides updated patient information available to a practitioner; (2) require practitioners to use database information to help determine whether to prescribe or renew a prescription for a controlled substance; and (3) require dispensers, where permitted, to enter patient data required by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) into the database, including concerning methadone dispensed. Imposes confidentiality protections regarding patient information in the database.

Requires health care practitioners and dispensers who participate in or are employed by a federal or federally funded health care program, and federally qualified health centers, to use the databases of the controlled substance monitoring programs if they are available to the practitioner or dispenser.

Directs the Secretary to award grants to carry out a pilot project to develop a standardized peer review process and methodology to review and evaluate prescribing and pharmacy dispensing patterns.

Establishes a grant program to facilitate training to increase the capacity of health care providers to conduct patient screening and brief interventions.

Requires health care providers who participate in or are employed by a federal health care program, and federally qualified health centers, to screen patients for abuse of prescription drugs or other controlled substances, conduct brief interventions, and provide referrals for known or suspected abuse of prescription drugs or other controlled substances.

Requires the Secretary to award grants to states for: (1) evaluating the prospect of review by health professions boards of prescribing authorities of providers, and (2) development of continuing education criteria and review processes that allow health professions boards or state agencies to certify appropriate education and training for informed and safe prescribing of opioids and other drugs in schedules II and III of the Controlled Substances Act.

Requires practitioners who register or renew a registration to dispense or conduct research with controlled substances in schedules II, III, IV, or V to certify that they have completed continuing medical education regarding prescription drug abuse (in the case of first-time registration) and regarding medical understanding of the proper use of all drugs listed in all of the controlled substances schedules (in the case of renewals). Directs the Attorney General to require a practitioner so registered to conduct patient screening for potential drug misuse or abuse before prescribing a schedule II or III drug, according to standards established by the state licensing body.

Requires the Secretary to: (1) review naloxone to consider whether it should cease to be a prescription-only drug and be available as a behind-the-counter drug, in order to increase access of such drug to community-based organizations and street outreach organizations; and (2) convene or coordinate an interagency working group to encourage states and local governments to increase opportunities for disposal of opiates and to reduce opportunities for abuse, as by establishing opioid dispensing limits at hospital emergency departments.

Directs the Comptroller General (GAO) to review prescription drug abuse programs and policies in federal agencies and best practices with respect to prescription drug abuse programs of the states.]]>

Increasing the Safety of Prescription Drug Use Act of 2013 Display Title Increasing the Safety of Prescription Drug Use Act of 2013 Official Title as Introduced A bill to reduce prescription drug misuse and abuse. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Increasing the Safety of Prescription Drug Use Act of 2013 Introduced in Senate 2013-11-06T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-113s1657is/xml/BILLS-113s1657is.xml 2014-05-14 Committee on United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control. Hearings held. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.