FoodBanter.com - View Single Post - OT. Cost of prescription tablets in the US. Need some assistance.

J. Clarke[_2_]

In article >,
says...
>
> On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 13:31:51 -0800, "Kent" >
> wrote:
>
> > A pharmacy cannot
> > accept a prescription unless it was written by someone licensed that that
> > state.
>
> I didn't know that!

Neither do the state legislatures in the states where I checked the
statutes.

Maine: Out of state prescriptions specifically allowed provide the
pharmacist calls the prescribing physician.

Arkansas: No specific statements concerning where the practitioner must
be licensed.

California: Schedule III, IV, and V controlled substance out of state
prescriptions are explicitly allowed, Schedule II the rules are too
complicated for me to be willing to wade through for an Internet post.

New York: Out of state prescription explicitly allowed.

I can find no reliable information that _any_ state has such a
prohibition in force.

In most states though pharmacists have broad discretion and most require
that the prescription contain specific information--if it's not all
there then the pharmacist won't fill the prescription and many get
sticky about Schedule II.

> > However, it appears that the feds and some states have changed that,
> > I'm sure, because of the internet.

> Whew.