Schedule VI prescriptions; allows practitioner to prescribe if there is an urgency for treatment. (HB286)
Introduced By
Del. Rosalyn Dance (D-Petersburg)
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Description
Schedule VI prescriptions; certain infectious diseases. Allows a practitioner to prescribe Schedule VI controlled substances, consistent with recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the Department of Health, without having performed the required patient examination, when, in his professional judgment, he deems there is urgency to begin treatment or to prevent the transmission of a communicable disease to close contacts of a diagnosed patient with whom the practitioner meets all other requirements of a bona fide practitioner-patient. Amends § 54.1-3303 (“Prescriptions to be issued and drugs to be dispensed for medical or therapeutic purposes only.”), of the Code of Virginia. View Full Text »
