Sec. 3. Three-day limit on opioid prescriptions
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Section 303 of the Controlled Substances Act ( 21 U.S.C. 823 ) is amended by adding at the end the following: In this subsection— the term acute pain — means pain with abrupt onset and caused by an injury or other process that is not ongoing; and does not include— chronic pain; pain being treated as part of cancer care; hospice or other end-of-life care; or pain being treated as part of palliative care; and the term addiction treatment opioid prescription means a prescription— for an opioid drug in schedule II, III, or IV approved by the Food and Drug Administration for an indication for the treatment of addiction; and that is for the treatment of addiction.
The Attorney General may not register, or renew the registration of, a practitioner under subsection
(f)who is licensed under State law to prescribe controlled substances in schedule II, III, or IV, unless the practitioner submits to the Attorney General, for each such registration or renewal request, a certification that the practitioner, during the applicable registration period, will not prescribe any opioid in schedule II, III, or IV, other than an addiction treatment opioid prescription, for the initial treatment of acute pain in an amount in excess of a 3-day supply. .
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