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          SENATE THIRD READING
          SCR 8 (DeSaulnier)
          As Introduced  January 14, 2013
          Majority vote 

           SENATE VOTE  :28-0  
           
           RULES               11-0                                        
           
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          |Ayes:|Skinner, Wilk, Bigelow,   |
          |     |Brown, Chau, Donnelly,    |
          |     |Hagman, Nazarian, V.      |
          |     |Manuel P�rez, Quirk,      |
          |     |Weber                     |
          |     |                          |
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           SUMMARY  :  Proclaims the month of March, each year, as  
          Prescription Drug Abuse Awareness Month and encourages all  
          citizens to participate in prevention programs and activities to  
          pledge to "Spread the Word?One Pill Can Kill."  Specifically,  
           this resolution  makes the following legislative findings:

          1)In 2008, drug overdoses in the United States caused 36,450  
            deaths and 20,044 of these were from prescription drug  
            overdoses; and, overdose deaths involving opioid pain  
            relievers (OPR) have increased and now exceed deaths involving  
            heroin and cocaine combined.

          2)In 2009, 1.2 million emergency department visits were related  
            to misuse or abuse of pharmaceuticals (an increase of 98.4%  
            since 2004); and, nonmedical use of OPR costs insurance  
            companies up to $72.5 billion annually in health care costs.

          3)By 2010, enough prescription painkillers were sold to medicate  
            every American adult with a typical dose of five milligrams of  
            hydrocodone every four hours for one month; and, in this same  
            year two million people reported using prescription  
            painkillers nonmedically for the first time with as many as  
            70% of people getting them from a relative or friend instead  
            of a doctor.

          4)The National Coalition Against Prescription Drug Abuse, in  
            cooperation with law enforcement agencies, community-based  








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            organizations, alcohol and other drug service providers, and  
            civic and business leaders, coordinates Prescription Drug  
            Abuse Awareness Month activities to offer our citizens the  
            opportunity to demonstrate their commitment to campaigns and  
            education aimed at raising awareness about the abuse and  
            misuse of prescription drugs.

           FISCAL EFFECT  :  None


           Analysis Prepared by  :    Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916) 319-2800 


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