Title: John S. McCain Opioid Addiction Prevention Act
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
John S. McCain Opioid Addiction Prevention Act
This bill establishes a new registration requirement for practitioners who are licensed to prescribe controlled substances in schedule II, III, or IV.
Specifically, a practitioner must agree to limit the supply of opioids prescribed for the initial treatment of acute pain, as a condition of obtaining or renewing a registration through the Drug Enforcement Administration.
An opioid that is approved and prescribed for the treatment of addiction is not subject to the limit.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 724 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 724

    To amend the Controlled Substances Act to establish additional 
  registration requirements for prescribers of opioids, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 7, 2019

Mrs. Gillibrand (for herself and Mr. Gardner) introduced the following 
    bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the 
                               Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Controlled Substances Act to establish additional 
  registration requirements for prescribers of opioids, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``John S. McCain Opioid Addiction 
Prevention Act''.

SEC. 2. REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS FOR PRESCRIBERS.

    Section 303 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 823) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(l)(1) Creating obligations for practitioners, only as described 
herein, the Attorney General shall not register, or renew the 
registration of, a practitioner under subsection (f) who is licensed 
under State law to prescribe controlled substances in schedule II, III, 
or IV, unless the practitioner submits to the Attorney General, for 
each such registration or renewal request, a certification that the 
practitioner, during the applicable registration period, will not 
prescribe any schedule II, III, or IV opioid, other than an opioid 
prescription described in paragraph (3), for the initial treatment of 
acute pain in an amount in excess of the lesser of--
            ``(A) a 7-day supply (for which no refill is available); or
            ``(B) an opioid prescription limit established under State 
        law.
    ``(2) In this subsection, the term `acute pain'--
            ``(A) means pain with abrupt onset and caused by an injury 
        or other process that is not ongoing; and
            ``(B) does not include--
                    ``(i) chronic pain;
                    ``(ii) pain being treated as part of cancer care;
                    ``(iii) hospice or other end-of-life care; or
                    ``(iv) pain being treated as part of palliative 
                care.
    ``(3) An opioid prescription described in this paragraph is a 
prescription--
            ``(A) for a schedule II, III, or IV opioid drug approved by 
        the Food and Drug Administration for an indication for the 
        treatment of addiction; and
            ``(B) that is for the treatment of addiction.''.
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