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Idaho News: Legislation Paves the Way for Idaho-based Narcotic Treatment Programs
Published in the December 2007 Idaho Board of Pharmacy Newsletter
Effective July 1, 2007, the addition of a new section to the Uniform Controlled Substance Act, Section 37-2727, Idaho Code allows for the operation of a narcotic treatment program in Idaho. Before operating as a narcotic treatment program the facility must apply for and obtain a CS registration certificate from DEA and a registration from the Board of Pharmacy as a non-pharmacy drug outlet. A licensed nurse at that facility may, pursuant to a valid order of a physician, prepare and administer to a patient at that facility a CS whether or not a practitioner is present. Take-home doses of a CS may be delivered to a patient at the facility for off-site use provided that the patient is authorized to receive take-home doses of the CS, and take-home doses are prepared pursuant to a valid order of a physician by a licensed pharmacist. The pharmacist must deliver the take-home doses to the locked storage area of that facility in a suitable container appropriately labeled for subsequent delivery by the nurse to the patient entitled to receive take-home doses.
