North Carolina Controlled Substances Act
North Carolina · 90 · §§ 90-100 to 90-99 · 54 sections
Overview
This act establishes a comprehensive framework for regulating controlled substances, organizing them into schedules based on their potential for abuse and accepted medical uses, and setting out how those schedules are created, modified, and published. It governs who may lawfully manufacture, distribute, prescribe, dispense, or administer these substances, imposing registration, recordkeeping, reporting, and confidentiality requirements, and conditioning prescribing on a legitimate medical purpose. It also creates a prescription-monitoring system administered by state regulatory agencies, extends recordkeeping duties to chemical precursors and laboratory apparatus, and provides administrative penalties and criminal offenses for violations.
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In the courts
Sections of this act have been cited in 557 court decisions.
Most-cited authority: 649 F.3d 237 - United States v. Simmons
Sections covered
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-100Rules
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-101Annual registration and fee to engage in listed activities with controlled substances; effect of registration; exceptions; waiver; inspection2 cites
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-102Additional provisions as to registration
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-102.1Registration of persons requiring limited use of controlled substances for training purposes in certain businesses
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-103Revocation or suspension of registration
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-104Records of registrants or practitioners
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-105Order forms
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-106Prescriptions and labeling1 cite
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-106.1Photo ID requirement for Schedule II controlled substances
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-106.3Disposal of residual pain prescriptions following death of hospice or palliative care patient
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-107Prescriptions, stocks, etc., open to inspection by officials
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-107.1Certified diversion investigator access to prescription records
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-108Prohibited acts; penalties58 cites
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-109Licensing required
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-109.1Treatment
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-110Injunctions
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-111Cooperative arrangements
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-112Forfeitures8 cites
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-112.1Remission or mitigation of forfeitures; possession pending trial
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-113Repealed by Session Laws 1973, c. 540, s. 7
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-113.1Burden of proof; liabilities1 cite
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-113.2Judicial review
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-113.3Education and research
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-113.4Repealed by Session Laws 1981, c. 500, s. 2, effective October 1, 1981
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-113.5State Board of Pharmacy, State Bureau of Investigation and peace officers to enforce Article2 cites
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-113.6Payments and advances
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-113.7Pending proceedings
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-113.8Continuation of regulations
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-86Title of Article4 cites
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-87Definitions41 cites
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-88Authority to control
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-89Schedule I controlled substances14 cites
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-89.1Treatment of controlled substance analogues
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-90Schedule II controlled substances22 cites
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-91Schedule III controlled substances6 cites
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-92Schedule IV controlled substances3 cites
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-93Schedule V controlled substances
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-94Schedule VI controlled substances12 cites
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-94.1Exemption for use or possession of hemp extract
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-95Violations; penalties356 cites
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-95.1Continuing criminal enterprise
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-95.2Cooperation between law-enforcement agencies3 cites
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-95.3Restitution to law-enforcement agencies for undercover purchases; restitution for drug analyses; restitution for seizure and cleanup of clandestine laboratories1 cite
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-95.4Employing or intentionally using minor to commit a drug law violation
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-95.5Civil liability - employing a minor to commit a drug offense
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-95.6Promoting drug sales by a minor
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-95.7Participating in a drug violation by a minor
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-96Conditional discharge for first offense8 cites
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-96.01Drug education schools; responsibilities of the Department of Health and Human Services; fees
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-96.1Immunity from prosecution for minors
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-96.2Drug-related overdose treatment; limited immunity
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-97Other penalties4 cites
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-98Attempt and conspiracy; penalties11 cites
- N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-99Republishing of schedules
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