Here are five highlights:
1. Gov. Hassan asked the Board of Medicine to bypass the normal input process and use emergency powers to adopt the rules.
2. Many physicians want the process of adoption to slow down and proceed through the normal public input process.
3. The opioid task force, a part of the Governor’s Commission for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention, Treatment and Recovery, opposes the emergency implementation. Vice President of the New Hampshire Medical Society, Janet Monahan, said, “We’re not against the rules, but let’s have an open process and not rush it.”
4. The 12-page draft includes several new rules, like requiring any physician or nurse practitioner who prescribes opioids to have continuing medical education.
5. Republican Party Chairman Jennifer Horn criticized Gov. Hassan for not working closely with physician groups.
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