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PUBLIC LAW 729-AUG. 31, 1954

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the respective secretaries of national associations representing (a) narcotic drug manufacturers, (b) physicians, and (c) pharmacists), shall find and by regulation designate to possess relatively little or no addiction liability, the sale, dispensing, or distribution may be made by a dealer to a consumer upon oral prescription of a duly registered physician, dentist, veterinary surgeon, or other practitioner, which oral prescription is reduced promptly to writing, and the writing filed and preserved by the dealer for a period of two years from the date on which such prescription is filled in such a way as to be readily accessible to inspection by the officers, agents, employees, and officials mentioned in section 2556. I n issuing an oral prescription, the prescriber shall furnish the dealer with the same information as is required by law or regulation in case of a written prescription for narcotic drugs or compounds of a narcotic drug except for the written signature of the prescriber, and the dealer who fills such prescription shall be required to inscribe such information on the written record of the prescription made, filed and preserved by him, and shall inscribe on the label of the container of the narcotic drug or compound of a narcotic drug the same information as is required in filling a written prescription. An oral prescription shall not be refilled. "If the Secretary shall subsequently determine that a narcotic drug or a compound of a narcotic drug, to which the oral prescription procedure described in the preceding paragraph has been made applicable, possesses a degree of drug addiction liability that, in his opinion, results in abusive use of such procedure, Publicationin he shall by regulation publish the determination in the Federal Register. The determination shall be final, and after the expiration of a period of six months from the date of its publication, the oral prescription procedure described in the preceding paragraph shall cease to apply to the particular narcotic drug or to the particular compound of a narcotic drug which is the subject of the determination." 5s\f^ s*«*- ^^2. SEC. 3. Section 2553(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939 is amended to read as follows: "(1) PRESCRIPTIONS.—To any person having in his or her possession any narcotic drugs or compounds of narcotic drug which have been obtained from a registered dealer in pursuance of a written or oral prescription referred to in section 2554(c)(2), issued for legitimate medical uses by a physician, dentist, veterinary surgeon, or other practitioner registered under section 3221; and where the bottle or other container in which such narcotic drug or compound of a narcotic drug may be put up by the dealer upon said prescription bears the name and registry number of the druggist, and name and address of the patient, serial number of prescription, and name, address, and registry number of the person issuing said prescription; or". 5g6 8A Stat. 9 4 2, SEC. 4. Section 2556(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939 is amended by placing a comma after the word "prescriptions" in the first sentence thereof and interpolating immediately following said comma, the phrase "including the written record of oral prescriptions ". 5568A Stat. 94 6, SEC. 5. Section 3224(b)(5) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939 is amended to read as follows: "(5) to any person carrying any narcotic drug or compound of a narcotic drug which has been obtained by the person from a registered dealer in pursuance of a written or oral prescription 6 8A Stat. 9 4 2, referred to in section 2554(c)(2), issued for legitimate medical

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