Opiate Addiction Treatment Act of 2011

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1729 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1729

      To amend the Controlled Substances Act to authorize certain 
practitioners other than physicians to dispense certain narcotic drugs 
in schedule III, IV, and V for maintenance treatment or detoxification 
 treatment without obtaining annually a separate registration for that 
                                purpose.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 4, 2011

Mr. Ruppersberger introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee 
  on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
      To amend the Controlled Substances Act to authorize certain 
practitioners other than physicians to dispense certain narcotic drugs 
in schedule III, IV, and V for maintenance treatment or detoxification 
 treatment without obtaining annually a separate registration for that 
                                purpose.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Opiate Addiction Treatment Act of 
2011''.

SEC. 2. PRACTITIONERS ELIGIBLE TO DISPENSE NARCOTIC DRUGS IN SCHEDULE 
              III, IV, AND V FOR MAINTENANCE TREATMENT OR 
              DETOXIFICATION TREATMENT WITHOUT SEPARATE REGISTRATION.

    Section 303(g) of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 823(g)) 
is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2)(B)(i), by striking ``qualifying 
        physician'' and inserting ``qualifying practitioner''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2)(G)--
                    (A) in the matter preceding subclause (I)--
                            (i) by striking the term ``qualifying 
                        physician'' and inserting ``qualifying 
                        practitioner''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``means a physician'' and 
                        inserting ``means a physician, or a nurse 
                        practitioner with a graduate nursing degree,''; 
                        and
                    (B) in subclauses (II), (IV), and (VII), by 
                striking the term ``physician'' each place such term 
                appears and inserting ``physician or nurse 
                practitioner''.
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