Washington State 14th District Representative Gina McCabe has sponsored a bill that would require doctors to warn patients about the risks of opioid use.  House Bill 2447 would require health care practitioners to discuss dependency and overdose risks as well as provide pain management alternatives to opioids when prescribing opioids for the first time during the course of a patient’s treatment.  The Washington State Department of Health would also be required to post a brief warning statement on their website.  McCabe is calling the bill “Jeremy’s Law,” named after a former Goldendale resident who was prescribed OxyContin and Vicodin after suffering an injury while wrestling in high school.  More surgeries led to more prescriptions for opioids, and he eventually became hooked on heroin.  He entered rehab twice, overdosing between the two stints of treatment.  The bill is scheduled for a hearing Friday in the House Health Care and Wellness Committee.