Story highlights Georgia bill provision would have required new ADHD prescriptions every five days

The bill was changed after outcry over the provision

(CNN) A provision of a Georgia Senate bill that would have required adults and children on ADHD medications to get new prescriptions every five days has been scrapped.

The proposed changes were presented before the Georgia Senate's Health and Human Services Committee on Thursday afternoon.

State Sen. Renee Unterman, the committee's chairwoman, had created a bill aimed at curbing the abuse of prescription opioids in Georgia. But controversy erupted as word spread of the provision that would have imposed restrictions on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder medications, as well as other prescriptions of controlled substances.

The bill, known as SB 81, is meant to curb the abuse of prescription opioid painkillers, such as OxyContin and Vicodin. It was drafted by Unterman, a Republican from the suburbs of Atlanta, in an effort to stop the state's growing opioid epidemic.

It would allow over-the-counter sales of an opioid blocker called naloxone, an emergency medicine that can save people from dying during an overdose. The bill also allows doctors to see whether a patient has recently received an opioid prescription, allowing them to determine that patients are going from doctor to doctor.

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