SENATE DOCKET, NO. 824        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 755

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act to reduce the abuse of oxycontin..

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. Chapter 94c of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 18 the following section:- Section 18A. No practitioners shall issue a prescription for the drug oxycontin unless he has had at least 10 hours of pain management training.