2025 California Code
Business and Professions Code - BPC
DIVISION 2 - HEALING ARTS
CHAPTER 9 - Pharmacy
ARTICLE 17 - Continuing Education
Section 4232.5.

Universal Citation:
CA Bus & Prof Code § 4232.5 (2025)
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4232.5. (a) A pharmacist who, pursuant to any authority of this chapter, prescribes a Schedule II controlled substance, shall have completed an education course on the risks of addiction associated with the use of Schedule II drugs.

(b) A pharmacist who has completed such a course within the last four years shall be deemed to have satisfied this requirement.

(c) This section shall become operative July 1, 2022.

(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 629, Sec. 25. (AB 1533) Effective January 1, 2022. Operative July 1, 2022, by its own provisions.)

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