Health and Safety Code section 11218

A physician treating a person with substance use disorder for addiction may not prescribe for or furnish to the person with substance use disorder more than any one of the following amounts of controlled substances during each of the first 15 days of that treatment:

(a)

Eight grains of opium.

(b)

Four grains of morphine.

(c)

Six grains of Pantopon.

(d)

One grain of Dilaudid.

(e)

Four hundred milligrams of isonipecaine (Demerol).

Source: Section 11218, https://leginfo.­legislature.­ca.­gov/faces/codes_displaySection.­xhtml?lawCode=HSC§ionNum=11218.­ (updated Jan. 1, 2024; accessed Jun. 25, 2025).

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