Section 338.3165. Emergency dispensing of schedule 2 substances; written prescriptions.

Within 7 days after authorizing an emergency oral prescription of a controlled substance listed in schedule 2, the prescriber shall  reduce the prescription  to   writing and have recorded on the  prescription's  face  "Authorization for  Emergency Dispensing" and the date of the oral order. The written prescription shall be delivered to the pharmacist in person or by mail within 7 days after the  oral   prescription  is issued. Upon receipt, the dispensing pharmacist shall attach this  prescription   to  the oral order which earlier had  been  reduced   to  writing.  The   pharmacist shall  notify the department of consumer and industry services if the prescriber fails to deliver a written prescription to him or her. The failure of a pharmacist to notify the department if the  prescriber fails  to   deliver  a  written prescription voids the authority conferred by this rule to dispense without a written prescription of a prescriber.

History: 1979 AC; 1992 AACS; 2003 AACS.