New Jersey News: DEA Update - Multiple Prescription Rule

January 1, 2008 2:57 pm Topics: Prescriptions

Reprinted from the January 2008 New Jersey Board of Pharmacy Newsletter.

Even though the change in Drug Enforcement Administration regulations (21 CFR §1306.12) effective December 19, 2007, which allows a practitioner the ability to provide multiple prescriptions for the same Schedule II item, to the same patient, to be filled at a later date up to a 90-day supply, New Jersey Controlled Drug Substances regulation 8:65-7.5(a) specifically requires that “all prescriptions for controlled substances, regardless of schedules, shall be presented to the pharmacist for filling within 30 days after the date when issued.” Because existing New Jersey state regulations for controlled dangerous substances are more restrictive than the new federal rule, New Jersey licensed practitioners issuing prescriptions, and New Jersey pharmacies filling prescriptions (including prescriptions written out of state) must continue to follow current New Jersey regulations.