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IN HB1195
Bill
Status
1/12/2015
Primary Sponsor
Wendy McNamara
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AI Summary
House Bill 1195 Summary
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Authorizes courts and parole boards to require addiction counseling, inpatient detoxification, and medication-assisted treatment (including Vivitrol or similar substances) for opioid or alcohol abuse as conditions of parole, probation, community corrections, pretrial diversion, and problem-solving court participation.
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Permits the division of mental health and addiction to consider Vivitrol or similar substances as alternatives to methadone for opioid treatment programs.
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Allows opioid treatment programs to use buprenorphine, buprenorphine combination products with naloxone, naltrexone, Vivitrol, or other FDA-approved medications as alternatives to methadone.
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Applies to individuals supervised under various criminal justice systems including those in community transition programs, pre-conviction forensic diversion programs, and reentry courts.
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Effective July 1, 2015.
Legislative Description
Treatment of opioid and alcohol abuse. Provides that addictions counseling, inpatient detoxification, and the administration of Vivitrol or a similar substance may be required to treat opioid or alcohol addiction as a condition of parole, probation, community corrections, pretrial diversion, or participation in a problem solving court. Provides that the division of mental health and addiction may consider the administration of Vivitrol or a similar substance as an alternative to methadone treatment.
Last Action
Reassigned to committee on Courts and Criminal Code
1/22/2015