West Coast University Week 6 Legislation Limiting Opioid Prescriptions Paper

Complete your week 6 required discussion prompt.

Prompt 1: The process of enacting legislation is a way of effecting change. Use the following website to conduct research this week on a piece of healthcare legislation that has been either presented or passed in the last five years: www.ncsl.org/research/health.aspx. Write a summary of the new laws (or proposed laws) and how they progressed through the legal system. Did they experience any setbacks, or did they progress through the system as expected? If they experienced delays, why do you think these delays occurred?