California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 1 - Requirements of Prescriptions

  • Section 11150.
    No person other than a physician, dentist, podiatrist, or veterinarian, or naturopathic doctor acting pursuant to Section 3640.7 of the Business and Professions Code, or...
  • Section 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 classified in...
  • Section 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 at...
  • Section 11152.
    No person shall write, issue, fill, compound, or dispense a prescription that does not conform to this division.(Added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1407.)
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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 purposes.(b)  Anyone...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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 possess,...
  • Section 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 to,...
  • Section 11157.
    No person shall issue a prescription that is false or fictitious in any respect.(Added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1407.)
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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,...
  • Section 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)...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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,...
  • Section 11161.5.
    (a) Prescription forms for controlled substance prescriptions shall be obtained from security printers approved by the Department of Justice.(b) The department may approve security printer applications after...
  • Section 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 issued...
  • Section 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 across the entire front of...
  • Section 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 knowingly possesses...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 11164.1.
    (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a prescription for a controlled substance issued by a prescriber in another state for delivery to a patient in...
  • Section 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 hospital’s computer system shall...
  • Section 11165.
    (a) To assist health care practitioners in their efforts to ensure appropriate prescribing, ordering, administering, furnishing, and dispensing of controlled substances, law enforcement and regulatory agencies...
  • Section 11165.1.
    (a) (1) (A) (i) A health care practitioner authorized to prescribe, order, administer, furnish, or dispense Schedule II, Schedule III, or Schedule IV controlled substances pursuant to Section 11150...
  • Section 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 establish, by regulation,...
  • Section 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 Program,...
  • Section 11165.4.
    (a) (1) (A) (i) A health care practitioner authorized to prescribe, order, administer, or furnish a controlled substance shall consult the CURES database to review a patient’s controlled substance...
  • Section 11165.5.
    (a) The Department of Justice may seek voluntarily contributed private funds from insurers, health care service plans, qualified manufacturers, and other donors for the purpose of...
  • Section 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....
  • Section 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...
  • Section 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,...
  • Section 11170.
    No person shall prescribe, administer, or furnish a controlled substance for himself.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1407.)
  • Section 11171.
    No person shall prescribe, administer, or furnish a controlled substance except under the conditions and in the manner provided by this division.(Repealed and added by...
  • Section 11172.
    No person shall antedate or postdate a prescription.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1407.)
  • Section 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 substances,...
  • Section 11174.
    No person shall, in connection with the prescribing, furnishing, administering, or dispensing of a controlled substance, give a false name or false address.(Repealed and added...
  • Section 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...
  • Section 11179.
    A person who fills a prescription shall keep it on file for at least three years from the date of filling it.(Amended by Stats. 1976,...
  • Section 11180.
    No person shall obtain or possess a controlled substance obtained by a prescription that does not comply with this division.(Added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1407.)

Last modified: October 22, 2018