This chapter authorizes a physician to treat a patient with an acute or chronic painful medical condition with a dangerous drug or controlled substance to relieve the patient's pain using appropriate doses, for an appropriate length of time, and for as long as the pain persists.
Tex. Occ. Code § 107.102
AUTHORITY TO TREAT
Known as the Intractable Pain Treatment Act
The act spans §§ 107.001 to 107.152 (12 sections).
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1276, Sec. 14.002(a), eff
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.