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V.I. Code tit. 19, § 717 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 31 - Mental Health, Alcoholism and Drug Dependency|§ 717. Comprehensive programs for treatment

 (a) The Commissioner shall establish comprehensive and coordinated programs for the treatment of the mentally ill, alcoholics, intoxicated and drug dependent persons. (b) The programs of the Division shall include: (1) emergency treatment provided by a facility affiliated with or part of the medical service of a general hospital; (2) inpatient treatment; (3) intermediate treatment; and (4) outpatient and followup treatment. (c) The Division shall provide for adequate and appropriate treatment for the mentally ill, alcoholics, intoxicated and drug dependent persons admitted under sections 720 to 723 of this title. Treatment may not be provided at a correctional institution except for inmates. (d) The Division shall maintain, supervise and control all facilities operated by it subject to policies of the Department of Health. The Administrator of each facility shall make an annual report of its activities to the Director in the form and manner the Director specifies. (e) All appropriate public and private resources shall be coordinated with and utilized in the program if possible. (f) The Director shall prepare, publish and distribute annually a current list of all approved public and private treatment facilities. (g) The Division may contract for the use of any facility as an approved public treatment facility if the Director, subject to the approval of the Commissioner, considers this to be an effective and economical course to follow.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 718 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 31 - Mental Health, Alcoholism and Drug Dependency|§ 718. Standards for public and private treatment facilities; enforcement procedures; penalties

 (a) The Division shall utilize standards established by the Joint Commission on Hospital Accreditation, Chicago, Illinois, for approved treatment facilities that must be met for a treatment facility to be approved as a public or private treatment facility, and fix the fees to be charged by the Division for the required inspections. The standards may concern only the health standards to be met and standards of treatment to be afforded patients. (b) The Division periodically shall inspect approved public and private treatment facilities at reasonable times and in a reasonable manner. (c) Each approved public and private treatment facility shall file with the Division on request, data, statistics, schedules and information the Division reasonably requires. An approved public or private treatment facility that without good cause fails to furnish any data, statistics, schedules, or information as requested, or files fraudulent return thereof, shall be removed from the list of approved treatment facilities by the Commissioner of Health upon certification by the Director. (d) After holding a hearing, the Commissioner may suspend, revoke, limit, or restrict an approval, or refuse to grant an approval, for failure to meet its standards. (e) The Superior Court may restrain any violation of this section, review any denial, restriction, or revocation of approval, and grant other relief required to enforce its provisions. (f) Upon petition of the Division and after a hearing held upon reasonable notice to the facility, the Superior Court may issue a warrant to an officer or employee of the Division authorizing him to enter and inspect at reasonable times, and examine the books and accounts of, any approved public or private treatment facility refusing to consent to inspection or examination by the Division or which the Division has reasonable cause to believe is operating in violation of this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 719 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 31 - Mental Health, Alcoholism and Drug Dependency|§ 719. Acceptance for treatment; rules

 The Commissioner shall adopt and may amend and repeal rules for acceptance of persons into the treatment program, considering available treatment resources and facilities, for the purpose of early and effective treatment of the mentally ill, alcoholics, intoxicated and drug dependent persons. In establishing the rules the Commissioner shall be guided by the following standards: (1) If possible a patient shall be treated on a voluntary rather than an involuntary basis; (2) A patient shall be initially assigned or transferred to outpatient or intermediate treatment, unless he is found to require inpatient treatment; (3) A person shall not be denied treatment solely because he has withdrawn from treatment against medical advice on a prior occasion or because he has relapsed after earlier treatment; (4) An individualized treatment plan shall be prepared and maintained on a current basis for each patient; and (5) Provision shall be made for a continuum of coordinated treatment services, so that a person who leaves a facility or a form of treatment will have available and utilize other appropriate treatment.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 720 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 31 - Mental Health, Alcoholism and Drug Dependency|§ 720. Voluntary treatment of the mentally ill, alcoholics and drug dependent persons

 (a) An alcoholic, mentally disturbed or drug dependent person may apply for voluntary treatment directly to an approved public treatment facility. If the proposed patient is a minor or an incompetent person, a parent, a legal guardian, or other legal representative may make the application. (b) Subject to rules adopted by the Commissioner, the Administrator in charge of an approved public treatment facility may determine who shall be admitted for treatment. If a person is refused admission to an approved public treatment facility, the Administrator, subject to rules adopted by the Commissioner, shall refer the person to another approved public treatment facility for treatment if possible and appropriate. (c) If a patient receiving inpatient care leaves an approved public treatment facility, he shall be encouraged to consent to appropriate outpatient or intermediate treatment. If it appears to the Administrator in charge of the treatment facility that the patient is mentally disturbed or an alcoholic or drug dependent person who requires help, the Division shall arrange for assistance in obtaining supportive services and residential facilities. (d) If a patient leaves an approved public treatment facility, with or against the advice of the Administrator in charge of the facility, the Division may make reasonable provision for his transportation to another facility or to his home. If he has no home he shall be referred to the Department of Social Welfare. If he is a minor or an incompetent person, the request for discharge from an inpatient facility shall be made by a parent, legal guardian or other legal representative.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 723a (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 31 - Mental Health, Alcoholism and Drug Dependency|§ 723a. Conditional release

 (a)  (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 723 of this title, a person committed under section 722 of this title or section 723 may be conditionally released when, in the opinion of the attending psychiatrist or clinical psychologist familiar with the person's case history, the clinical needs of such person do not require active inpatient care and treatment but may still require follow-up care and monitoring. (2) The conditional release of any person committed under sections 722 or 723 shall be in accordance with a written service plan prepared by a psychiatrist, psychologist or attending physician and staff familiar with the case history of the person to be conditionally released and in cooperation with appropriate social services officials. In causing such plan to be prepared, the Administrator of the treatment facility shall take steps to assure that the person to be conditionally released is interviewed, provided with an opportunity to actively participate in the development of such plan and is advised of whatever services might be available to him through the Division of Mental Health, Alcoholism and Drug Dependency and the Department of Health. (3) The written service plan prepared pursuant to this section shall include, but shall not be limited to, the following: (A) a statement of the patient's need, if any, for supervision, whether by a family member or other third party custodian, medication, after-care services, and a schedule of appointments, if any, to be kept with a psychiatrist, any other physician, or mental health professional; (B) a specific recommendation of the type of residence in which the patient is to live and a listing of the services available to the patient in such residence; (C) a listing of organizations, facilities, including those of the department, and individuals who are available to provide services in accordance with the identified needs of the patient; and (D) assistance in finding employment following conditional release. (b) The Administrator of the treatment facility, after consultation with the staff of the Division of Mental Health, Alcoholism and Drug Dependency and a psychiatrist, psychologist, or attending physician, is authorized to revoke the conditional release granted under this section to a person whenever it appears that the person has failed to comply with any condition of release such as taking of medication and keeping scheduled appointments, or upon facts or evidence presented by a family member, relative, mental health professional, or other responsible person, showing a need for immediate re-commitment because of the likelihood of harm to self or others, or for emergency treatment.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 724 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 31 - Mental Health, Alcoholism and Drug Dependency|§ 724. Records of mentally disturbed, alcoholic, intoxicated and drug dependent persons

 (a) The registration and other records of treatment facilities shall remain confidential and are privileged to the patient. (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, the Director may make available information from patients' records for purposes of research into the causes and treatment of mental illness, alcoholism or drug dependency. Information under this subsection shall not be published in a way that discloses patients' names or other identifying information.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 725 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 31 - Mental Health, Alcoholism and Drug Dependency|§ 725. Visitation and communication of patients

 (a) Subject to reasonable rules regarding hours of visitation which the Director may adopt, with the approval of the Commissioner, patients in any approved treatment facility shall be granted opportunities for adequate consultation with counsel, and for continuing contact with family and friends consistent with an effective treatment program. (b) Neither mail nor other communication to or from a patient in any approved treatment facility may be intercepted, read, or censored unless the Director, Administrator or other person in a position of authority has cause to believe that the mail or other communication contains contraband, information regarding an unlawful event or activity or otherwise warrants interception, in which case the mail or other communication shall be forwarded to the Department of Justice for appropriate action. The Director may adopt reasonable rules regarding the use of telephone by patients in approved treatment facilities.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 726 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 31 - Mental Health, Alcoholism and Drug Dependency|§ 726. Emergency service patrol; establishment; rules

 The Division may establish voluntary emergency service patrols the members of which shall serve without compensation. An emergency service patrol consists of persons trained to give assistance in the streets and in other public places to persons who are mentally disturbed, intoxicated or under the influence of drugs. Members of an emergency service patrol shall be capable of providing first aid in emergency situations and may transport mentally disturbed, intoxicated or drugged persons to their homes and to and from public treatment facilities.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 727 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 31 - Mental Health, Alcoholism and Drug Dependency|§ 727. Criminal laws limitations

 (a) The Legislature of the Virgin Islands may not adopt or enforce a local law, ordinance, resolution or rule having the force of law that includes being mentally disturbed, drinking, being a common drunkard, being found in an intoxicated condition or being found under the influence of drugs as a criminal offense. (b) Nothing in this chapter affects any law, ordinance, resolution, or rule against drunken driving, driving under the influence of alcohol or driving under the influence of drugs, or other similar offense involving the operation of a vehicle, aircraft, boat, machinery, or other equipment, or regarding the sale, purchase, dispensing, possessing, or use of alcoholic beverages or drugs at stated times and places or by a particular class of persons.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 728 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 31 - Mental Health, Alcoholism and Drug Dependency|§ 728. Severability; inconsistency with other provisions

 (a) If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of the chapter which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this chapter are severable. (b) Whenever any provision of this chapter conflicts or is inconsistent with any other provision of this Code, the provision of this chapter shall govern to the extent of the conflict or inconsistency.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 729 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 31 - Mental Health, Alcoholism and Drug Dependency|§ 729. Effective date

 This chapter shall become effective ninety days after August 5, 1977.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 751 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 32 - Sale of Generically Equivalent Drugs|§ 751. Short title

 This chapter may be cited and referred to as the “Virgin Islands Drug Product Selection Act”.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 752 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 32 - Sale of Generically Equivalent Drugs|§ 752. Definitions

 For the purposes of this chapter: (a) “Brand name” means the proprietary or trade name selected by the manufacturer and placed upon a drug, its container, label or wrapping at the time of packaging; (b) “Generic name” means the chemical name or formula or the established name designated in the official United States Pharmacopeia, official Homeopathic Pharmacopeia of the United States, or official National Formulary or any supplement thereof; (c) “Substitute” means to dispense with the prescriber's express authorization a different drug product in place of the drug ordered or prescribed; (d) “Therapeutically equivalent” means drugs that are approved by the Federal Drug Administration for interstate distribution and that will provide essentially the same efficiency and toxicity when administered to an individual in the same dosage regimen; and (e) “Pharmacy,” “pharmacist” and “medical practitioner” shall have the same meanings as those contained in section 141 of Title 27, Virgin Islands Code.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 753 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 32 - Sale of Generically Equivalent Drugs|§ 753. Substitution of generic drugs

 (a) Every prescription slip issued by a physician shall contain a clearly printed name and address of the issuing physician. In addition, every prescription written in the Virgin Islands shall have two boxes for the medical practitioner's notation. Under one box shall be the words “Dispense as written”. Under the second box shall be the words “Substitution allowed”. By checking one of the two boxes, the medical practitioner has indicated to the pharmacist his dispensing instruction. (b) Every licensed Virgin Islands physician, when prescribing any drug or brand name, shall in each prescription, authorize by signing the box marked “Substitution allowed”; Provided, however, That if in the professional judgment of the prescribing physician the active ingredient or ingredients of any generic substitute may vary in the therapeutic effect upon the drug recipient, the physician shall sign the box marked “Dispense as written” on the prescription form. (c) Pharmacists, when dispensing a prescription shall, unless requested otherwise by the purchaser in writing, substitute drugs containing the same active ingredients of the same strength, quantity, and dosage as that drug requested by the prescriber from the list of Food and Drug Administration-approved drugs unless ordered by the prescribing physician to dispense as written on the prescription form. The pharmacist shall pass on to the ultimate consumer the difference in the acquisition cost between the drug product prescribed and the drug product dispensed, exclusive of the pharmacist's professional fee. The pharmacist shall not charge a higher or differential professional fee for the generic drug product dispensed than that charged for the brand name product prescribed. When a substitution is made, the pharmacist shall indicate the product dispensed on the written prescription.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 754 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 32 - Sale of Generically Equivalent Drugs|§ 754. Liability of pharmacists and medical practitioners

 (a) The substitution of any drug by a pharmacist pursuant to this chapter does not constitute the practice of medicine. (b) No substitution of drugs made by a pharmacist in accordance with this chapter shall constitute evidence of negligence if substitution was authorized by the prescribing physician and if the substituted drug was accepted in a generally recognized formulary.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 755 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 32 - Sale of Generically Equivalent Drugs|§ 755. Enforcement

 It is hereby made the duty of the Department of Health, the Department of Licensing and Consumer Affairs and the Drug and Narcotics Control Officer within the Territory to enforce all provisions of this chapter.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 756 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 32 - Sale of Generically Equivalent Drugs|§ 756. Penalty

 Any person, firm or corporation who or which shall willfully fail to comply with the provisions of this chapter shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500) for each violation.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 765 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 32A - Electronic Prescriptions|§ 765. Electronic prescriptions required; compliance

 (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), by no later than December 31, 2011, all duly licensed physicians within the Virgin Islands must electronically transmit all patient prescriptions to pharmacists. Such electronic prescription transmissions must, at a minimum, be in compliance with the final standards promulgated by the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services pursuant to the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 (P.L. 108-173) for patient covered part D drugs prescribed for Medicare beneficiaries, regardless of whether the patient is a Medicare beneficiary. (b) The transmittal of electronic prescriptions for controlled substances, as defined in section 593(7) of this title, to any pharmacy is prohibited, and no person, including a licensed physician, may transmit an electronic prescription for any controlled substance to any pharmacy. (c) The Commissioner is directed to ensure that the Virgin Islands complies with subsections (a) and (b) of this section.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 771 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 33 - Voluntary Food Distribution to the Homeless|§ 771. Short title

 This chapter may be cited as the “Feed the Hungry Act.”
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 772 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 33 - Voluntary Food Distribution to the Homeless|§ 772. Definitions

 For the purposes of this chapter: (a) “Governmental entity” means the Government of the United States or the Government of the Virgin Islands or any subdivision thereof. (b) “Nonprofit corporation” is any corporation which is exempt from taxation pursuant to 26 U.S.C., Internal Revenue Code, section 501(a). (c) “Nonprofit organization” is any organization which is exempt from taxation pursuant to 26 U.S.C., Internal Revenue Code, section 501(c), as amended.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 773 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 33 - Voluntary Food Distribution to the Homeless|§ 773. Liability of food donors

 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person or entity donating food to a nonprofit corporation, nonprofit organization or governmental entity, without charge, or at a charge sufficient only to cover the cost of handling such food, shall be liable for civil damages for any injury arising out of the condition of such food; unless at the time of the donation, the food donated was knowingly misbranded or adulterated, or was manufactured, processed, prepared, handled or stored in a grossly negligent manner.
V.I. Code tit. 19, § 774 (2019)
2019 US Virgin Islands Code|Title 19 - Health|Part III - Food and Drugs|Chapter 33 - Voluntary Food Distribution to the Homeless|§ 774. Liability of food distributors and handlers

 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person, nonprofit corporation, nonprofit organization or governmental entity, which distributes or serves food without charge or at a charge sufficient only to cover the cost of handling such food, shall be liable for civil damages for any injury arising out of the condition of such food, unless at the time of distribution or serving, the food is knowingly misbranded or adulterated, or the injury is the result of gross negligence, recklessness of intentional misconduct of the person, nonprofit corporation, nonprofit organization or governmental entity, or any person employed by or under the control of the person, nonprofit corporation, nonprofit organization or governmental entity.