O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 16-13-56.1 (2019)

Opioids; notification of addictive risks

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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(a) As used in this Code section, the term “opioids” means opiates, opioids, opioid analgesics, and opioid derivatives.

(b) A prescriber who issues a prescription for an opioid shall provide the patient receiving the prescription information on the addictive risks of using opioids and information on options available for safely disposing of any unused opioids where such options exist. Such information may be provided verbally or in writing.

History

Code 1981, § 16-13-56.1, enacted by Ga. L. 2017, p. 319, § 2-1/HB 249.

Annotations

Law reviews. For article on the 2017 enactment of

this Code section, see 34 Georgia St. U.L. Rev. 143 (2017).

PART 2 PRESCRIPTION DRUG MONITORING PROGRAM DATA BASE Law reviews. For article on the 2011 enactment of

this part, see 28 Georgia St. U.L. Rev. 269 (2011).

T.16, C.13, A.2, P.2

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Access to database. - Registered nurses and licensed practical nurses cannot access the GAPDMP database as dispensers or as practitioners authorized to dispense under the Georgia Prescription Drug Monitoring Program,

but nurses may be able to access the GAPDMP database as delegates of physicians who do have the authority to prescribe or dispense. 2016 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 16-7.