ARTICLE 1. Requirements of Prescriptions
Article 1 added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1407.
§§ 11150–11180 · 46 sections
- § 11150 No person other than a physician, dentist, podiatrist, or veterinarian, or naturopathic doctor acting pursuant to Section 3640.7 of the Business and…
- § 11150.2 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, if cannabinoids are excluded from Schedule I of the federal Controlled Substances Act and placed on a schedule of the act…
- § 11150.3 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, if a substance listed in Schedule I of Section 11054 is excluded from Schedule I of the federal Controlled Substances Act…
- § 11150.6 Notwithstanding Section 11150.5 or subdivision (a) of Section 11054, methaqualone, its salts, isomers, and salts of its isomers shall be deemed to be…
- § 11151 A prescription written by an unlicensed person lawfully practicing medicine pursuant to Section 2065 of the Business and Professions Code, shall be filled only…
- § 11152 No person shall write, issue, fill, compound, or dispense a prescription that does not conform to this division.
- § 11153 (a) A prescription for a controlled substance shall only be issued for a legitimate medical purpose by an individual practitioner acting in the usual course of…
- § 11153.5 (a) No wholesaler or manufacturer, or agent or employee of a wholesaler or manufacturer, shall furnish controlled substances for other than legitimate medical…
- § 11154 (a) Except in the regular practice of his or her profession, no person shall knowingly prescribe, administer, dispense, or furnish a controlled substance to or…
- § 11155 Any physician, who by court order or order of any state or governmental agency, or who voluntarily surrenders his controlled substance privileges, shall not…
- § 11156 (a) Except as provided in Section 2241 of the Business and Professions Code, no person shall prescribe for, or administer, or dispense a controlled substance…
- § 11157 No person shall issue a prescription that is false or fictitious in any respect.
- § 11158 (a) Except as provided in Section 11159 or in subdivision (b) of this section, no controlled substance classified in Schedule II shall be dispensed without a…
- § 11158.1 (a) Except when a patient is being treated as set forth in Sections 11159, 11159.2, and 11167.5, and Article 2 (commencing with Section 11215) of Chapter 5,…
- § 11159 An order for controlled substances for use by a patient in a county or licensed hospital shall be exempt from all requirements of this article, but shall be in…
- § 11159.1 An order for controlled substances furnished to a patient in a clinic which has a permit issued pursuant to Article 13 (commencing with Section 4180) of…
- § 11159.2 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a prescription for a controlled substance for use by a patient who has a terminal illness may be written on a…
- § 11159.3 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, during a declared local, state, or federal emergency, if the California State Board of Pharmacy issues a notice that the…
- § 11161 (a) When a practitioner is named in a warrant of arrest or is charged in an accusatory pleading with a felony violation of Section 11153, 11154, 11156, 11157,…
- § 11161.5 (a) Prescription forms for controlled substance prescriptions shall be obtained from security printers approved by the Department of Justice. (b) The…
- § 11161.7 (a) When a prescriber’s authority to prescribe controlled substances is restricted by civil, criminal, or administrative action, or by an order of the court…
- § 11162.1 (a) The prescription forms for controlled substances shall be printed with the following features: (1) A latent, repetitive “void” pattern shall be printed…
- § 11162.2 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the uniquely serialized number described in paragraph (15) of subdivision (a) of Section 11162.1 shall not be a required…
- § 11162.5 (a) Every person who counterfeits a prescription blank purporting to be an official prescription blank prepared and issued pursuant to Section 11161.5, or…
- § 11162.6 (a) Every person who counterfeits a controlled substance prescription form shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not…
- § 11164 Except as provided in Section 11167, no person shall prescribe a controlled substance, nor shall any person fill, compound, or dispense a prescription for a…
- § 11164.1 (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, a prescription for a controlled substance issued by a prescriber in another state for delivery to a patient in another…
- § 11164.5 (a) Notwithstanding Section 11164, if only recorded and stored electronically, on magnetic media, or in any other computerized form, the pharmacy’s or…
- § 11165 (a) To assist health care practitioners in their efforts to ensure appropriate prescribing, ordering, administering, furnishing, and dispensing of controlled…
- § 11165.1 (a) (1) (A) (i) A health care practitioner authorized to prescribe, order, administer, furnish, or dispense Schedule II, Schedule III, Schedule IV, or Schedule…
- § 11165.2 (a) The Department of Justice may conduct audits of the CURES Prescription Drug Monitoring Program system and its users. (b) The Department of Justice may…
- § 11165.3 The theft or loss of prescription forms shall be reported immediately by the security printer or affected prescriber to the CURES Prescription Drug Monitoring…
- § 11165.4 (a) (1) (A) (i) A health care practitioner authorized to prescribe, order, administer, or furnish a controlled substance shall consult the patient activity…
- § 11165.5 (a) The Department of Justice may seek voluntarily contributed private funds from insurers, health care service plans, qualified manufacturers, and other…
- § 11165.6 A prescriber shall be allowed to access the CURES database for a list of patients for whom that prescriber is listed as a prescriber in the CURES database.
- § 11166 No person shall fill a prescription for a controlled substance after six months has elapsed from the date written on the prescription by the prescriber. No…
- § 11167 Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 11164, in an emergency where failure to issue a prescription may result in loss of life or intense suffering, an…
- § 11167.5 (a) An order for a controlled substance classified in Schedule II for a patient of a licensed skilled nursing facility, a licensed intermediate care facility,…
- § 11170 No person shall prescribe, administer, or furnish a controlled substance for himself.
- § 11171 No person shall prescribe, administer, or furnish a controlled substance except under the conditions and in the manner provided by this division.
- § 11172 No person shall antedate or postdate a prescription.
- § 11173 (a) No person shall obtain or attempt to obtain controlled substances, or procure or attempt to procure the administration of or prescription for controlled…
- § 11174 No person shall, in connection with the prescribing, furnishing, administering, or dispensing of a controlled substance, give a false name or false address.
- § 11175 No person shall obtain or possess a prescription that does not comply with this division, nor shall any person obtain a controlled substance by means of a…
- § 11179 A person who fills a prescription shall keep it on file for at least three years from the date of filling it.
- § 11180 No person shall obtain or possess a controlled substance obtained by a prescription that does not comply with this division.