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S 2578 114th Congress Senate Crime and Law Enforcement Drug trafficking and controlled substances Health information and medical records Prescription drugs

Reducing Unused Medications Act of 2016

Introduced: February 24, 2016 Introduced by: Warren, Elizabeth Democratic · Massachusetts See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Feb 24, 2016
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Reducing Unused Medications Act of 2016

This bill amends the Controlled Substances Act to allow a pharmacist to partially fill a prescription for a schedule II controlled substance (such as a prescription opioid painkiller) at the request of a prescribing practitioner or patient.

A pharmacist must record the partial filling in the same manner as a full filling, update the record with each partially filled prescription, and notify the prescribing practitioner. The total quantity dispensed in partial fillings must not exceed the total quantity prescribed.

The remaining portion of a partially filled prescription may be filled and must be exhausted prior to, or on the same date that such prescription, if fully filled, would have been exhausted.

What's happening now February 24, 2016

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 4599 Identical bill Reducing Unused Medications Act of 2016
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Capito, Shelley Moore
West Virginia · Feb 24, 2016
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 2578: Reducing Unused Medications Act of 2016. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-2578/
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"S. 2578: Reducing Unused Medications Act of 2016." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-2578/.
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S. 2578, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-S-2578/.
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