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Home » US Law » 2022 Iowa Code » Title IV - PUBLIC HEALTH » Chapter 147 - GENERAL PROVISIONS, HEALTH-RELATED PROFESSIONS » Section 147.162 – Rules and directives relating to opioids.

147.162 Rules and directives relating to opioids.

1. Any board created under this chapter that licenses a prescribing practitioner shall adopt rules under chapter 17A establishing penalties for prescribing practitioners that prescribe opioids in dosage amounts exceeding what would be prescribed by a reasonably prudent prescribing practitioner engaged in the same practice.

2. For the purposes of this section, “prescribing practitioner” means a licensed health care professional with the authority to prescribe prescription drugs including opioids.

2018 Acts, ch 1138, §21