Are oral prescriptions for controlled substances still permitted for Schedule II medications?

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  • Schedule II prescription can be communicated by a prescribing practitioner known to or confirmed by a pharmacist orally in an emergency.
  • The filling pharmacist shall promptly reduce such oral order to writing on a prescription blank. Such oral order shall be confirmed by the proper completion and mailing or delivery of the prescription prepared by the prescribing registrant to the pharmacist filling such oral order within seventy-two hours.
  • The pharmacist shall affix the temporary prescription to the properly completed prescription.
  • The properly completed prescription can either be hand written or electronically transmitted but should indicated that it is part of the telephoned in prescription.

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