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Bill Title: As enacted, prohibits pain management clinics from dispensing controlled substances; specifies that act does not prohibit a medical doctor, osteopathic physician, advanced practice nurse with certificates of fitness to prescribe, or physician assistant working at a pain management clinic from providing to that practitioner's patient, without charge, a sample of a schedule IV or schedule V controlled substance in a quantity limited to an amount that is adequate to treat the patient for a maximum of 72 hours. - Amends TCA Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 4; Title 53; Title 63 and Chapter 880 of the Private Acts of 2012.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-05-21 - Pub. Ch. 336 [HB0868 Detail]

Download: Tennessee-2013-HB0868-Draft.pdf

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