detoxification treatment, short-term detoxification treatment,
long-term detoxification treatment, maintenance treatment,
comprehensive maintenance treatment and interim maintenance
treatment.
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Section 2. The act is amended by adding a section to read:
Section 4.1. Specific Powers and Duties with Regard to
Opioid Addiction Treatment.--The department, in conjunction with
the bureau and council, shall develop and adopt uniform State
standards for providers of opioid addiction treatment designed
to ensure the safety of both the patient and the general public
in connection with the utilization of opioid agonists such as
methadone. At a minimum, the standards shall be evidence-based
to the extent possible and shall:
(1) Require a clinic providing opioid addiction treatment to
be open seven days per week, three hundred sixty-five days per
year to limit take-home dosages or to otherwise provide such
provider accessibility to its patients.
(2) Require a clinic providing opioid addiction treatment to
provide information on antidotes such as Narcan used to counter
the effects of opioid overdose to a patient starting methadone
treatment and to provide an antidote if requested by the patient
or otherwise deemed medically appropriate.
(3) Require a clinic providing opioid addiction treatment to
test its patients for usage of benzodiazepines at intake and
regularly on a random basis.
(4) Require a clinic providing opioid addiction treatment to
obtain a signed waiver or authorization before providing
methadone to a patient who is using benzodiazepines from the
psychiatrist or physician who has prescribed benzodiazepine
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