Requires the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services to encourage, aid, and facilitate clinical research into the use of ibogaine in drug treatment for heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine addiction.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5459
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 9, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to requiring the
office of alcoholism and substance abuse services to encourage, aid,
and facilitate clinical research into the use of ibogaine in drug
treatment
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 19.07 of the mental hygiene law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision (l) to read as follows:
3 (l) The office of alcoholism and substance abuse services shall
4 encourage, aid, and facilitate clinical research into the use of
5 ibogaine in drug treatment for heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine
6 addiction.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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