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(A) When a licensed health professional authorized to prescribe drugs personally furnishes drugs to a patient pursuant to division (B) of section 4729.29 of the Revised Code, the prescriber shall ensure that the drugs are labeled and packaged in accordance with state and federal drug laws and any rules and regulations adopted pursuant to those laws. Records of purchase and disposition of all drugs personally furnished to patients shall be maintained by the prescriber in accordance with state and federal drug statutes and any rules adopted pursuant to those statutes.
(B) When personally furnishing to a patient RU-486 (mifepristone), a prescriber is subject to section 2919.123 of the Revised Code. A prescription for RU-486 (mifepristone) shall be in writing and in accordance with section 2919.123 of the Revised Code.
(C)(1) Except as provided in division (C)(2) of this section, a prescriber may not do either of the following:
(a) In any thirty-day period, personally furnish to all patients, taken as a whole, controlled substances in an amount that exceeds a total of two thousand five hundred dosage units;
(b) In any seventy-two-hour period, personally furnish to or for a patient an amount of a controlled substance that exceeds the amount necessary for the patient’s use in a seventy-two-hour period.
(2) Division (C)(1) of this section does not apply to either of the following:
(a) A veterinarian;
(b) The amount of any methadone personally furnished to a patient by a prescriber for the purpose of treating drug addiction.
(3) The state board of pharmacy may impose a fine of not more than five thousand dollars on a prescriber who fails to comply with the limits established under division (C)(1) of this section. A separate fine may be imposed for each instance of failing to comply with the limits. In imposing the fine, the board’s actions shall be taken in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.
Added by 129th General Assembly File No. 19, HB 93, § 1, eff. 5/20/2011.