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2025 California Code
Business and Professions Code - BPC
DIVISION 2 - HEALING ARTS
CHAPTER 9 - Pharmacy
ARTICLE 4 - Requirements for Prescriptions
Section 4076.7.
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CA Bus & Prof Code § 4076.7 (2025)
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4076.7. In addition to the requirements of Sections 4076 and 4076.5, whenever a prescription drug containing an opioid is dispensed to a patient for outpatient use, the pharmacy or practitioner dispensing the drug shall prominently display on the label or container, by means of a flag or other notification mechanism attached to the container, a notice that states “Caution: Opioid. Risk of overdose and addiction.”
(Added by Stats. 2018, Ch. 693, Sec. 11. (SB 1109) Effective January 1, 2019.)
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