Idaho News: Validity of Prescription Drug Orders

December 1, 2007 3:52 PM Topics: Prescriptions

Published in the December 2007 Idaho Board of Pharmacy Newsletter

54-1733 Validity of Prescription Drug Orders reads:
A prescription or drug order may be issued either:
(a) By a practitioner acting in the usual course of his profession; or
(b) By a physician, dentist, veterinarian, scientific investigator, or other person, other than a pharmacist, who is licensed in a jurisdiction other than the State of Idaho and is permitted by such license to dispense, conduct research with respect to or administer the prescribed legend drugs in the course of his professional practice or research in such jurisdiction, so long as the individual is acting within the jurisdiction, scope, and authority of his license when issuing the prescription order.
Thus, other states may authorize qualified pharmacists as mid-level practitioners, prescribing with Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) numbers, but as listed in 54-1733 above, these prescriptions are not legal, at this time, in the state of Idaho.