Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Ensuring Safe Access to Prescription Medication Act of 2014”.
Ensuring Safe Access to Prescription Medication Act of 2014
A BILL
To amend the Controlled Substances Act to treat as dispensing the delivery of a controlled substance by a pharmacy to a practitioner, pursuant to a patient-specific prescription of the practitioner, under certain circumstances.
Sec. 2 Delivery of controlled substances by a pharmacy to a practitioner pursuant to a patient-specific prescription
Section 102(10) of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802(10)) is amended—
by striking “(10) The term dispense means to deliver” and inserting the following:
“(10)
“(A) The term dispense means—
“(i) to deliver”
by striking “The term dispenser means a practitioner” and inserting the following:
“(B) The term dispenser means a practitioner”
in subparagraph (A), as so designated—
by striking the period at the end and inserting “; or”; and
by adding at the end the following:
“(ii) to deliver a controlled substance by a pharmacy to a practitioner, including the packaging, labeling, or compounding necessary to prepare the substance for such delivery, if—
“(I) such delivery is pursuant to a patient-specific prescription of the practitioner; and
“(II) the practitioner has deemed that it is medically necessary, acting in the usual course of professional practice, for the controlled substance to be administered by the practitioner to the patient.”
in subparagraph (B), as so designated, by striking “to an ultimate user or research subject”.