Title 21, Title 21 and Drugs

(a) The director of health shall place a substance in schedule I if the director finds that the substance: (1) Has high potential for abuse; and (2) Has no accepted medical use in treatment in the United States or lacks accepted safety for use in treatment under medical supervisi…

The director of health shall place a substance in schedule II if he or she finds that: (1) The substance has high potential for abuse; (2) The substance has currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States, or currently accepted medical use with severe restriction…

The director of health shall place a substance in schedule III if he or she finds that: (1) The substance has a potential for abuse less than the substances listed in schedules I and II; (2) The substance has currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States; and (…

The director of health shall place a substance in schedule IV if he or she finds that: (1) The substance has a low potential for abuse relative to substances in schedule III; (2) The substance has currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States; and (3) Abuse of …

The director of health shall place a substance in schedule V if he or she finds that: (1) The substance has low potential for abuse relative to the controlled substances in schedule IV; (2) The substance has currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States; and (3…

The director of health is authorized, empowered, and directed to make any rules and regulations consistent with the provisions of this chapter and to provide any fees for licenses, registrations, and forms that he or she may deem proper to promote the enforcement of this chapter.

(a) Every person who manufactures, distributes, prescribes, administers, or dispenses any controlled substance within this state, or who proposes to engage in the manufacture, distribution, prescribing, administering, or dispensing of any controlled substance within this state, m…

(a) The director of health shall register an applicant to manufacture, distribute, prescribe, administer, or dispense controlled substances unless he or she determines that the issuance of that registration would be inconsistent with the public interest. In determining the public…

(a) A registration to manufacture, distribute, prescribe, administer, or dispense a controlled substance may be suspended or revoked by the director of health upon a finding that the continuance of that registration would be inconsistent with the public interest. In considering t…

(a) Before denying, suspending, or revoking a registration, or refusing a renewal of a registration, the director of health shall serve upon the applicant or registrant an order to show cause why the registration should not be denied, revoked, or suspended, or why the renewal sho…

No person shall manufacture, compound, mix, cultivate, grow, or by any other process produce or prepare controlled substances, and no person as a wholesaler shall supply controlled substances, without first having obtained a license to do so from the director of health.

(a) No license shall be issued under § 21-28-3.06 unless and until the applicant for the license has furnished proof satisfactory to the department: (1) That the applicant is of good moral character or, if the applicant is an association or corporation, that the managing officers…

All fees for licenses and registrations under this chapter shall be turned over to the general treasurer for the use of the state.

(a) A license to manufacture, distribute, or dispense a controlled substance, may be suspended or revoked by the director of health upon finding that the licensee: (1) Has materially falsified any application filed pursuant to this chapter or required by this chapter; (2) Has bee…

A duly licensed manufacturer or wholesaler may sell and distribute controlled substances on official written orders to any of the following persons: (1) To a manufacturer or wholesaler; (2) To a practitioner; (3) To a person in charge of a hospital, but only for use by or in that…

(a) An official written order for any controlled substance shall be signed in duplicate by the person giving the order or by his or her duly authorized agent. The original shall be presented to the person who sells or distributes the controlled substances named in it. In the even…

Every practitioner or other person who is authorized to administer or professionally use controlled substances shall keep a record of controlled substances received by him or her, and a record of all controlled substances administered, dispensed, or professionally used by him or …

Manufacturers and wholesalers shall keep records of all controlled substances compounded, mixed, cultivated, grown, or by any other process produced or prepared, and of all controlled substances received and disposed of by them in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.

Apothecaries shall keep records of all controlled substances received and disposed of by them, as provided in this chapter.

Every person who purchases for resale, or who sells controlled substances listed in schedule V excepted by this chapter, shall keep a record showing the quantities and kinds of controlled substances received and sold, or disposed of otherwise, in accordance with the provisions of…

(a)(1) The form of records and who shall keep the records shall be prescribed by the director of health. The records of controlled substances received shall in every case show the date of receipt, the name and address of the person from whom received, and the kind and quantity of…

All records required to be kept under the provisions of this chapter shall at all times be open to inspection by the director of health and by the authorized agents of the director of health.

(a) An apothecary in good faith may sell and dispense controlled substances in schedules II, III, IV, and V to any person upon a valid prescription by a practitioner licensed by law to prescribe or administer those substances; dated and signed by the person prescribing on the day…

The legal owner of any stock of controlled substances in a pharmacy, upon discontinuance of dealing in the controlled substances, may sell the stock to a manufacturer, wholesaler, or apothecary, but only on an official written order.

(a)(1) A practitioner, in good faith and in the course of his or her professional practice only, may prescribe, administer, and dispense controlled substances, or he or she may cause the controlled substances to be administered by a nurse or intern under his or her direction and …

(a) A practitioner, in good faith and in the course of his or her professional practice managing pain associated with a cancer diagnosis, palliative or nursing home care, intractable or chronic intractable pain as provided in § 5-37.4-2, or other condition allowed by department o…

The administering or dispensing directly, but not prescribing, of any controlled substance listed in any schedule to a drug dependent person for the purpose of continuing his or her dependence upon the drugs in the course of conducting an authorized clinical investigation in the …

A person in charge of a hospital or a laboratory, or in the employ of this state, or of any other state, or of any political subdivision of a state, or a master of a ship or a person in charge of any aircraft upon which no physician is regularly employed, or a physician or surgeo…

No practitioner, manufacturer, or wholesaler shall solicit by public advertisement or otherwise application to him or her for prescription for, or sales of, controlled substances, or shall publicly advertise any treatment the principal element of which consists in the administeri…

No physician, dentist, osteopath, chiropodist, or veterinarian shall administer, dispense, or prescribe any controlled substance in schedules II, III, and IV, except after an original physical examination of the person for whom, or the animal for which the controlled substance is…

The director of health shall have power to administer oaths, summon and examine witnesses, and order the production and examination of books, accounts, papers, records, and documents in any proceedings within the jurisdiction of the department. All subpoenas, and orders for the p…

Whenever a manufacturer sells a controlled substance in packages designed for sale at retail and whenever a wholesaler sells or distributes a controlled substance in a package prepared by him or her, the manufacturer shall securely affix to each individual package in which that c…

Whenever an apothecary sells or dispenses any controlled substance on a prescription issued by a practitioner, he or she shall affix to the container in which the controlled substance is sold or dispensed, a label showing his or her own name and address, or the name, and address …

Security requirements for controlled substances shall be the same as those enumerated in federal law; provided, that the director of health may promulgate additional rules and regulations as required to prevent diversion of controlled substances.

The provisions of this chapter restricting the possession and having control of controlled substances shall not apply to: (1) Common carriers or to warehouse operators while engaged in lawfully transporting or storing controlled substances, or to any employee of them acting withi…

No civil or criminal liability shall be imposed by virtue of this chapter on any practitioner, apothecary, or other person registered under this chapter who manufactures, distributes, or possesses an imitation controlled substance for use as a placebo by a registered practitioner…

(a) The information contained in any prescription-drug-monitoring database maintained by the department of health pursuant to § 21-28-3.18 shall be disclosed only: (1) To a practitioner who certifies that the requested information is for the purpose of evaluating the need for, or…

(a) The department shall establish a voluntary non-opiate directive form. The form shall indicate to all practitioners that an individual shall not be administered or offered a prescription or medication order for an opiate. The form shall be posted on the department’s searchable…

(a)(1) Except as authorized by this chapter and chapters 28.6 and 28.11 of title 21, it shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, deliver, or possess with intent to manufacture or deliver a controlled substance. (2) Any person who is not a drug-addicted person, as defined …

(a) Except as authorized by this chapter, it shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, sell, or possess with intent to manufacture or sell, a controlled substance classified in schedule I or II (excluding marijuana) or to possess or deliver the following enumerated quantit…

(a) Except as authorized by the chapter, it shall be unlawful for any person to possess, manufacture, sell, or deliver the following enumerated quantities of certain controlled substances: (1) More than one kilogram (1 kg.) of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount…

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person: (1) Who is subject to article III to distribute or dispense a controlled substance in violation of § 21-28-3.18; (2) Who is a registrant to manufacture a controlled substance not authorized by his or her registration, or to distribute or d…

(a) It is unlawful for any person knowingly or intentionally: (1) To distribute as a registrant a controlled substance, except pursuant to an order form as required by § 21-28-3.10; (2) To use in the course of the manufacture or distribution of a controlled substance a registrati…

(a) Hypodermic and retractable hypodermic syringes, needles, or any instrument adapted for the administration of drugs by injection shall not be sold except in licensed pharmacies. Every sale shall be made subject to the rules and regulations of the director of the department of …

(a) No person shall obtain or attempt to obtain a controlled substance or procure or attempt to procure the administration of a controlled substance: (1) By fraud, deceit, misrepresentation, or subterfuge; (2) By the forgery or alteration of a prescription or of any written order…

(a) Any store, shop, warehouse, building, vehicle, aircraft, vessel, or any place which is used for the unlawful sale, use, or keeping of a controlled substance shall be deemed a common nuisance. (b) Any person who violates this section with respect to: (1) Knowingly keeping and …