O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 16-13-78.1 (2019)

Prescribing or ordering dangerous drugs

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Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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(a) No person shall prescribe or order the dispensing of a dangerous drug, except a registered practitioner who is:

(1) Licensed or otherwise authorized by this state to prescribe dangerous drugs;

(2) Acting in the usual course of his professional practice; and

(3) Prescribing or ordering such dangerous drug for a legitimate medical purpose.

(b) Any person violating subsection (a) of this Code section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

History

Code 1981, § 16-13-78.1, enacted by Ga. L. 1985, p. 1219, § 10.

Annotations

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Nurses may not write or telephone in prescriptions by referring to a written protocol. 1988 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 88-9.