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An Act requiring prescription drug abuse and pain management training for medical providers. |
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the
same, as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 18 of Chapter 94C of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting the following subsection (e):
(e) Prescribing practitioners seeking to obtain or renew a Massachusetts professional license shall be required to demonstrate completion of no less than 10 hours of training in effective pain management including identification of patients at high risk for substance abuse and other aspects of prescription medication abuse. Professional licensing boards may count these hours as part of their regular continuing medical education licensing requirements. The Department of Public Health shall develop a program that achieves the stated purposes, which program shall qualify toward the satisfaction of continuing medical education licensing requirements.