                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

BOARD MAY ENDORSE CERTAIN DOCUMENT (§ 54.1-2912.2)

In the furtherance of its responsibility to ensure continued practitioner
competency, the Board of Medicine may endorse the Medical Society of
Virginia&#8217;s Guidelines for the Use of Opioids in the Management of Chronic,
Non-Cancer Pain, developed and adopted in 1997.
		For the purpose of this section, &#8220;endorse&#8221; means to publicize and
distribute such guidelines as providing an appropriate standard of care;
however, the Board&#8217;s endorsement shall not be construed to mean that the
guidelines must be followed or are regulations or are in any way intended to be
enforceable law.

HISTORY: 1998, c. 496.