                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

NO PRESCRIPTION FOR PREPARATIONS LISTED PURSUANT TO SCHEDULE V (§ 54.1-3416)

A preparation listed pursuant to Schedule V may be dispensed without a
prescription if:

1. The preparation is dispensed only by a pharmacist directly to the person
requesting the preparation;

2. The preparation is dispensed only to a person who is at least eighteen years
of age;

3. The pharmacist requires the person requesting the preparation to furnish
suitable identification including proof of age when appropriate;

4. The pharmacist does not dispense to any one person, or for the use of any one
person or animal, any narcotic drug preparation or preparations, when he knows,
or can by reasonable diligence ascertain, that such dispensing will provide the
person to whom or for whose use, or the owner of the animal for the use of
which, such preparation is dispensed, within 48 consecutive hours, with more
than 200 milligrams of opium, or more than 270 milligrams of codeine, or more
than 130 milligrams of dihydrocodeinone, or more than 65 milligrams of
ethylmorphine, or more than 32 5/10 milligrams of diphenoxylate. In dispensing
such a narcotic drug preparation, the pharmacist shall exercise professional
discretion to ensure that the preparation is being dispensed for medical
purposes only.
			Any pharmacist shall, at the time of dispensing, make and keep a record
showing the date of dispensing, the name and quantity of the preparation, the
name and address of the person to whom the preparation is dispensed, and enter
his initials thereon. Such records shall be maintained as set forth in &#xA7;
54.1-3404 and the regulations of the Board.

HISTORY: 1970, c. 650, § 54-524.75; 1972, c. 798; 1988, c. 765.