Amendment #17 to H4725

Subsequent Hospital Admissions for Overdose Symptoms

Mr. Jones of North Reading moves to amend the bill in section 45, in line 492, by striking the word “subsection” and inserting in place thereof the following words:- “two subsections”

and moves to further amend the bill in section 45 by inserting at the end thereof the following new subsection:-

“(d) If a person has received a substance use disorder evaluation and returns to an acute-care hospital or emergency satellite facility within seven days of receipt of such evaluation suffering from an opiate-related overdose or has recently been administered naloxone , the attending physician may authorize the restraint of such person and apply for the treatment of such person for a 3-day period at a facility authorized for such purposes by the department of public health or the department of mental health.”