COLUMBIA — While the number of opioid prescriptions in South Carolina has decreased in recent years, newly public data could show where doctors are still over-prescribing the highly addictive drugs, state health officials announced Monday. The interactive online dashboard, to be updated quarterly, is viewable on the website of the state’s public health agency. It […] The post New data could show where in SC doctors overprescribe opioids appeared first on SC Daily Gazette.
General Assembly passes Naloxone co-prescription bill aimed at slowing opioid epidemic
General Assembly passes Naloxone co-prescription bill aimed at slowing opioid epidemic By Chris Joseph | April 22, 2021 at 7:23 PM EDT - Updated April 22 at 7:26 PM
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - On Thursday, the General Assembly passed a bill designed to spread the availability and knowledge of a lifesaving and overdose-reversing medication.
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It requires doctors to offer a co-prescription of Naloxone under the following circumstances:
(a) the prescription dosage for the patient is fifty or more morphine milligram equivalents of an opioid medication per day;
(b) opioid medication is prescribed concurrently with a prescription for benzodiazepine;