[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 21, Volume 9]
[Revised as of April 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 21CFR1306.21]

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                         TITLE 21-FOOD AND DRUGS
 
   CHAPTER II--DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
 
PART 1306--PRESCRIPTIONS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 1306.21  Requirement of prescription.

    (a) A pharmacist may dispense directly a controlled substance listed 
in Schedule III, IV, or V which is a prescription drug as determined 
under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, only pursuant to either 
a written prescription signed by a practitioner or a facsimile of a 
written, signed prescription transmitted by the practitioner or the 
practitioner's agent to the pharmacy or pursuant to an oral prescription 
made by an individual practitioner and promptly reduced to writing by 
the pharmacist containing all information required in Sec. 1306.05, 
except for the signature of the practitioner.
    (b) An individual practitioner may administer or dispense directly a 
controlled substance listed in Schedule III, IV, or V in the course of 
his/her professional practice without a prescription, subject to 
Sec. 1306.07.
    (c) An institutional practitioner may administer or dispense 
directly (but not prescribe) a controlled substance listed in Schedule 
III, IV, or V only pursuant to a written prescription signed by an 
individual practitioner, or pursuant to a facsimile of a written 
prescription or order for medication transmitted by the practitioner or 
the practitioner's agent to the institutional practitioner-pharmacist, 
or pursuant to an oral prescription made by an individual practitioner 
and promptly reduced to writing by the pharmacist (containing all 
information required in Section 1306.05 except for the signature of the 
individual practitioner), or pursuant to an order for medication made by 
an individual

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practitioner which is dispensed for immediate administration to the 
ultimate user, subject to Sec. 1306.07.

[62 FR 13965, Mar. 24, 1997]