A physician treating a person with substance use disorder for addiction may not prescribe for or furnish to the person with substance use disorder more than any one of the following amounts of controlled substances during each of the first 15 days of that treatment:

(a)  Eight grains of opium.

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Terms Used In California Health and Safety Code 11218

  • Person: means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or company. See California Health and Safety Code 19

(b)  Four grains of morphine.

(c)  Six grains of Pantopon.

(d)  One grain of Dilaudid.

(e)  Four hundred milligrams of isonipecaine (Demerol).

(Amended by Stats. 2023, Ch. 21, Sec. 10. (AB 1130) Effective January 1, 2024.)

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