NRS453.377. Authority to dispense controlled substances.

  A controlled substance may be dispensed by:

      1.  A registered pharmacist upon a legal prescription from a practitioner or to a pharmacy in a correctional institution upon the written order of the prescribing practitioner in charge.

      2.  A pharmacy in a correctional institution, in case of emergency, upon a written order signed by the chief medical officer.

      3.  A practitioner.

      4.  A registered nurse, when the state, county, city or district health officer has declared a state of emergency.

      5.  A medical intern in the course of his or her internship.

      6.  A pharmacy in an institution of the Department of Corrections to a person designated by the Director of the Department of Corrections to administer a lethal injection to a person who has been sentenced to death.

      7.  A registered pharmacist from an institutional pharmacy, pursuant to regulations adopted by the Board.

      (Added to NRS by 1979, 1673; A 1981, 744; 1983, 1514; 1987, 1655, 2239; 1991, 794; 1995, 1721; 2001, 411; 2001 Special Session, 242, 250)