The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
(Cite as: 18 V.S.A. § 4290)
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§ 4290. Replacement prescriptions and medications
(a) As used in this section, “replacement prescription” means an unscheduled prescription
request in the event that the document on which a patient’s prescription was written
or the patient’s prescribed medication is reported to the prescriber as having been
lost or stolen.
(b) When a patient or a patient’s parent or guardian requests a replacement prescription
for a Schedule II, III, or IV controlled substance, the patient’s health care provider
shall query the VPMS prior to writing the replacement prescription to determine whether
the patient may be receiving more than a therapeutic dosage of the controlled substance.
(c) When a health care provider writes a replacement prescription pursuant to this section,
the provider shall clearly indicate as much by writing the word “REPLACEMENT” on the
face of the prescription. The health care provider shall document the writing of the
replacement prescription in the patient’s medical record. (Added 2013, No. 75, § 12, eff. Oct. 1, 2013.)