DEA & Controlled Substances

• DEA's Home Page
  
  
• DEA Pharmacist's Manual
  
  
• Controlled Substance Schedules
  
  
• Drugs of abuse 
  
  
• Street Names for Drugs of Abuse
  
  
• Pharmacist's Recovery  
  Contact your state board or pharmacist assn. for help for impaired pharmacists by selecting your state from the pull-down list in the upper right portion of the page.
  
  
• DEA local field offices
  
  
• Addiction-related, including methadone issues
  
  
• Patients with non-terminal chronic pain
  
  
• Regulations regarding interns, residents and foreign physicians using Hospital DEA numbers
  DEA registration numbers for physicians used to all start with the letter A. Registrants after October 1, 1985 have been assigned the letter B as a first character. There has been no change in the registration number for those physicians who already had the letter A as a first character.
  
  
• Changing CII Rxs  
  What info can be changed via telephone on a CII Rx?
  Patient's address, drug strength, quantity, directions, dosage form, generic substitution. There is no time limit for filling CIIs mandated in federal law.
  Partial Filling CII Rxs balance within 72 hours
  Refilling CII Rxs For terminal patients or those in long-term care facilities a large quantity can be written and partialed several times over 60 days in accordance with strict guidelines.  This is the same as being able to refill an Rx, in effect, though not in record keeping.
  Faxing CII Prescriptions for Hospice Patients
  
  
• Supplying controlled substances to a prescriber or another pharmacy 
  A practitioner writing "for office use" or using someone's name who works in the office in order to obtain controlled substances for office use is not legal. If the order is for a CIII-V, then Federal law allows you to sell or distribute to another pharmacy or DEA registered prescriber via a duplicate invoice. The invoice must contain the name, address, and DEA number of both the seller and the buyer. In addition, the invoice must contain the date of sale, the name, strength, metric quantity, and dosage form of the drug sold. These records must be kept available for two years. Sales may not exceed 5% of the total number of dosage units of all controlled substances distributed and dispensed during the same calendar year. If for a  CII, you act as supplier (like wholesalers do) and receive the 222 Form from the purchaser.  You then forward the third copy to the DEA at your local field office.
  
  
• Order 222 forms online
  Form 222 FAQs 
  More on Form 222 Including power of attorney info.
  If you ever accidentally run out of 222 Forms, you may be able to call your DEA local field office and get an emergency authorization to order CIIs until you get your 222 Forms.
  
  
• DEA proposed standards for:
  electronic Rxs for controlled substances
  electronic 222 forms
  
  
• Inventory your controls every 2 years
  Inventory newly scheduled controls ASAP
  Include unsaleable controls in biennial inventory
  Form 41 for destruction of controls