Section 147.162 - Rules and directives relating to opioids1. Any board created under this chapter that licenses a prescribing practitioner shall adopt rules under chapter 17A establishing penalties for prescribing practitioners that prescribe opioids in dosage amounts exceeding what would be prescribed by a reasonably prudent prescribing practitioner engaged in the same practice.2. For the purposes of this section, "prescribing practitioner" means a licensed health care professional with the authority to prescribe prescription drugs including opioids.Added by 2018 Iowa, ch 1138, s 21, eff. 7/1/2018.