Post by kellyh on Jan 4, 2008 22:48:57 GMT -5
I get a monthly email from www.myADHD.com and this little piece of information was in December's email (ok, so I'm a bit behind!).
New DEA Regulations
Multiple Prescriptions Allowed for Stimulant Medications
Beginning December 19th medical practitioners will be allowed to issue multiple prescriptions for Schedule II controlled substances during one office visit according to new policy issued by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The prescriptions will have to be filled on different dates, and the total amount of medication prescribed under the new regulations must not exceeed a 90-day supply. The prescriptions could be filled sequentially, for the same scehdule II controlled substance.
This will help many families and adults with ADHD who take prescribed stimulant medications to treat their condition. Previously multiple contacts were required with the practitioner's office to get a new prescription. This was cumbersome, expensive, and time consuming both for prescribers and patients, adding a significant amount of office work, including answering and recording a telephone request, obtaining the chart, noting the refill in the chart or medication log, and addressing and mailing the prescription.
In September, 2006 the DEA published in the Federal register a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) proposing to amend its regulations to allow practitioners to provide individual patients with mutliple prescriptions, to be filled sequentially, for the same schedule II controlled substance, with such multiple prescriptions having the combined effect of allowing a patient to receive over time up to a 90-day supply of that controlled substance.
The DEA received 264 comments about the NPRM, the vast majority of which supported the NPRM. Comments received from parents of children with ADHD were supportive of the proposed rule, generally stating that they will no longer have to take their children to their prescribing practitioners every month for a new prescription. As a result they will be able to take less time off from work (especially burdensome for single parents) and their children will have fewer absences from school.
New DEA Regulations
Multiple Prescriptions Allowed for Stimulant Medications
Beginning December 19th medical practitioners will be allowed to issue multiple prescriptions for Schedule II controlled substances during one office visit according to new policy issued by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The prescriptions will have to be filled on different dates, and the total amount of medication prescribed under the new regulations must not exceeed a 90-day supply. The prescriptions could be filled sequentially, for the same scehdule II controlled substance.
This will help many families and adults with ADHD who take prescribed stimulant medications to treat their condition. Previously multiple contacts were required with the practitioner's office to get a new prescription. This was cumbersome, expensive, and time consuming both for prescribers and patients, adding a significant amount of office work, including answering and recording a telephone request, obtaining the chart, noting the refill in the chart or medication log, and addressing and mailing the prescription.
In September, 2006 the DEA published in the Federal register a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) proposing to amend its regulations to allow practitioners to provide individual patients with mutliple prescriptions, to be filled sequentially, for the same schedule II controlled substance, with such multiple prescriptions having the combined effect of allowing a patient to receive over time up to a 90-day supply of that controlled substance.
The DEA received 264 comments about the NPRM, the vast majority of which supported the NPRM. Comments received from parents of children with ADHD were supportive of the proposed rule, generally stating that they will no longer have to take their children to their prescribing practitioners every month for a new prescription. As a result they will be able to take less time off from work (especially burdensome for single parents) and their children will have fewer absences from school.
I was about to conquer the world but then I got distracted by something shiny.
