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Title 32, §3657: Requirements regarding prescription of opioid medication
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§3657. Requirements regarding prescription of opioid medication
A. To a patient any combination of opioid medication in an aggregate amount in excess of 100 morphine milligram equivalents of opioid medication per day; [2015, c. 488, §23 (NEW).]
B. To a patient who, on the effective date of this section, has an active prescription for opioid medication in excess of 100 morphine milligram equivalents of an opioid medication per day, an opioid medication in an amount that would cause that patient's total amount of opioid medication to exceed 300 morphine milligram equivalents of opioid medication per day; except that, on or after July 1, 2017, the aggregate amount of opioid medication prescribed may not be in excess of 100 morphine milligram equivalents of opioid medication per day; [2015, c. 488, §23 (NEW).]
C. On or after January 1, 2017, within a 30-day period, more than a 30-day supply of an opioid medication to a patient under treatment for chronic pain. "Chronic pain" has the same meaning as in Title 22, section 7246, subsection 1-C; or [2015, c. 488, §23 (NEW).]
D. On or after January 1, 2017, within a 7-day period, more than a 7-day supply of an opioid medication to a patient under treatment for acute pain unless the opioid product is labeled by the federal Food and Drug Administration to be dispensed only in a stock bottle that exceeds a 7-day supply as prescribed, in which case the amount dispensed may not exceed a 14-day supply. "Acute pain" has the same meaning as in Title 22, section 7246, subsection 1-A. [2017, c. 213, §18 (AMD).]
[ 2017, c. 213, §18 (AMD) .]
(5) Other circumstances determined in rule by the Department of Health and Human Services pursuant to Title 22, section 7254, subsection 2; and [2015, c. 488, §23 (NEW).]
As used in this paragraph, "administer" has the same meaning as in Title 22, section 7246, subsection 1-B. [2017, c. 213, §19 (AMD).]
[ 2017, c. 213, §19 (AMD) .]
[ 2015, c. 488, §23 (NEW) .]
[ 2017, c. 186, §4 (NEW) .]
2015, c. 488, §23 (NEW). 2017, c. 186, §4 (AMD). 2017, c. 213, §§18, 19 (AMD).