HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 848        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1773

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to controlled release Hydromorphone..

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. Relative to  controlled release Hydromorphone.

Chapter 94C of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2004 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after section 3 the following section:-

Section 3A.  Notwithstanding sections 2 and 3, any preparation which contains hydromorphone, including its isomers, esters, ethers, salts and salts of isomers, esters and ethers, if manufactured so as to delay absorption into the blood system, unless the preparation contains one or more active non-narcotic ingredients in recognized therapeutic amounts, shall be in schedule I.

SECTION 2.  Section 31 of said chapter 94C of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby amended by inserting  after  line 85, the following paragraph:-

Any preparation, which contains hydromorphone, including its isomers, esters, ethers, salts and salts of isomers, esters and ethers, if manufactured so as to delay absorption into the blood system, unless the preparation contains one or more active non-narcotic ingredients in recognized therapeutic amounts.