§13786-B. Partial dispensing of prescription for opioid medication
1. Partial dispensing authorized. Notwithstanding any law or rule to the contrary, a pharmacist may partially dispense a prescription for an opioid medication in a lesser quantity than the recommended full quantity indicated on the prescription if requested by the patient for whom the prescription is written. The remaining quantity of the prescription in excess of the recommended full quantity is void and may not be dispensed without a new prescription.
[PL 2015, c. 488, §30 (NEW).]
2. Notice to practitioner. If a pharmacist partially dispenses a prescription for an opioid medication as permitted under this section, the pharmacist or the pharmacist's designee shall, within a reasonable time following the partial dispensing but not more than 7 days, notify the practitioner of the quantity of the opioid medication actually dispensed. The notice may be conveyed by a notation on the patient's electronic health record or by electronic transmission, by facsimile or by telephone to the practitioner.
[PL 2015, c. 488, §30 (NEW).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 2015, c. 488, §30 (NEW).
Structure Maine Revised Statutes
TITLE 32: PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS
Chapter 117: MAINE PHARMACY ACT
Subchapter 9: MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
32 §13781. Generic and therapeutically equivalent substitution
32 §13783. Posting prices (REPEALED)
32 §13784. Patient information regulation
32 §13785. Patient profile record system regulation
32 §13786. Identification of persons prescribing medicines on hospital prescription blanks
32 §13786-A. Security requirements; rules
32 §13786-B. Partial dispensing of prescription for opioid medication
32 §13786-C. Dispensing of prescription of opioid medication; immunity
32 §13786-D. Prescribing and dispensing insulin
32 §13786-E. Prescribing, dispensing and administering HIV prevention drugs
32 §13786-F. Dispensing of emergency supplies of chronic maintenance drug
32 §13787. Hypodermic syringes; prescriptions (REPEALED)
32 §13787-A. Sale of hypodermic apparatus
32 §13788. Sale of poisonous drugs
32 §13789. Possession of drug samples
32 §13790. Using drugs not in prescription
32 §13792. Sale by certain methods prohibited
32 §13793. Adulterating and selling drugs
32 §13794. Labeling of prescriptions
32 §13795. Photographic proof of identification; discretion to sell or dispense; immunity
32 §13796. Retail sale of targeted methamphetamine precursors
32 §13797. Prescription drug price information
32 §13798. Expedited partner therapy
32 §13799. Consumer choice preserved
32 §13800. Access to distributed drugs
32 §13800-A. Liability for product of another; exemption
32 §13800-B. Prohibition on providing conversion therapy to minors