Persons authorised to. give prescriptions for dangerous drugs— cocaine, opium, morphia, and the 1 like—may no longer prescribe for their, selves (says a London paper of October 25th). This new regulation has been 1 made by the Home Secretary, under tho Dangerous Drugs Act, because several cases have recently come to his notice in wliiih medical men who were vii-tims of the drug habit procured considerable quantities of cocaine and mornhia by giving prescriptions made out to themselves. It will not affectl a doctor's existing powers of procuring tho drugs for use in his profession. An attempt on the part of any person to obtain the drugs by misrepresentation is m.-ide an offence. Persons dealing in thft drugs are required to preserve drug proscriptions and records for two two years.
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17629, 5 December 1922, Page 4
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