Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
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Department of Health Professions
 
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Board of Medicine
 
chapter
Regulations Governing Prescribing of Opioids and Buprenorphine [18 VAC 85 ‑ 21]
Action Initial regulations
Stage Emergency/NOIRA
Comment Period Ended on 5/3/2017
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4/7/17  3:53 pm
Commenter: Lacey Patterson

HB 2163
 

HB2163 will hurt people more than help, it will cost lives. Please take it back, don't do this. Addicts deserve to be rehabilitated, they deserve all the resources they can get, they are not scum or worthless so please don't treat them as such. Some people are allergic to naloxone and honestly it doesn't matter whether a drug has naloxone in it or not, if the person wants to abuse it they will. I was on suboxone treatment for several months and it worked wonders, but I wasn't ready to stop using and my partner was using and I wasn't willing to get away from him so I started back up. Now I'm on methadone because it's cheaper and works even better for me. Please don't make it even harder for people who have it hard already and feel so much guilt and remorse. Don't be inhumane.

 

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