City Council support of bill H.4056 which addresses opioid addiction by limiting first-time prescriptions of opioids, requiring verbal screenings of all public school students and passing a series of other provisions related to education, treatment and prevention of drug addiction

How it started

Mar 14, 2016 · Proposed by Councillor Carlone, Vice Mayor Devereux, and Councillors McGovern and Mazen: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Mar 14, 2016 · ✅ Order adopted (unanimous)

Voted yes (9), unanimous

Dennis Carlone
Leland Cheung
Jan Devereux
Craig A. Kelley
David Maher
Nadeem Mazen
Marc McGovern
Timothy J. Toomey
E. Denise Simmons

Roll call of Mar 14, 2016 · from the council’s minutes · photos: City of Cambridge

What’s next

⌛ No response on the docket: nothing has been filed back under this request's number. Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.

🏛 This item on the city's site

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Mar 14, 2016