Efforts Continue to Implement S.B. 144 in Colorado

Those who have followed our work know that we supported a new law in Colorado that made Colorado one of the first states to offer a safe harbor for providers who prescribe opioids appropriately and to protect people with chronic pain who require the use of opioids from discrimination at clinics and pharmacies.  Getting a law passed is only the first step; ensuring proper implementation by making healthcare providers aware of its requirements is equally as important.
 
This fall NPAC worked on implementation by writing blurbs about the law for each county-level medical society.  We joined the Northern Colorado Medical Society’s Stethoscope podcast for a discussion about the law, which you can listen to nocomedsoc.org or buzzsprout.com.

Our fact sheet about the law appears on the websites of the Colorado Medical Society and the Colorado Pain Society. Our Executive Director, Kate Nicholson, also wrote an article about the law in the Fall 2023 publication of Colorado Medicine, the official magazine of the Colorado Medicine Society, which you can read here.