The prescribing practitioner and the pharmacist shall be jointly responsible for compliance with this chapter in prescribing and dispensing a controlled substance.
A prescription for a controlled substance shall be issued or dispensed only for a legitimate medical purpose by an individual practitioner acting in the usual course of his or her professional practice.
A prescription for a controlled substance shall be issued for treatment of individual patients. A prescription for a controlled substance shall not be issued to an individual practitioner for general dispensing purposes.
A prescription for a controlled substance listed in any schedule shall be used for the purpose of continuing the patient's dependency only when its issuance is pursuant to authorized clinical treatment in a narcotic treatment rehabilitation program.
Any person issuing a prescription and any person knowingly filling a prescription which is not in conformity with this chapter shall be subject to the penalties provided for violations of the Act and this chapter.
An order purporting to be a prescription issued not in the usual course of professional treatment or in legitimate and authorized research is not a prescription within the meaning and intent of the Act, and a person knowingly filling such a prescription, and the person issuing it, shall both be subject to the penalties provided for violations of the provisions of law relating to controlled substances.
D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 22, r. 22-B1305