Regulations last checked for updates: Oct 18, 2024

Title 21 - Food and Drugs last revised: Oct 15, 2024
§ 290.10 - Definition of emergency situation.

For the purposes of authorizing an oral prescription of a controlled substance listed in schedule II of the Federal Controlled Substances Act, the term emergency situation means those situations in which the prescribing practitioner determines:

(a) That immediate administration of the controlled substance is necessary, for proper treatment of the intended ultimate user; and

(b) That no appropriate alternative treatment is available, including administration of a drug which is not a controlled substance under schedule II of the Act, and

(c) That it is not reasonably possible for the prescribing practitioner to provide a written prescription to be presented to the person dispensing the substance, prior to the dispensing.

authority: 21 U.S.C. 352,353,355,371
source: 40 FR 14040, Mar. 27, 1975, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 21 CFR 290.10