Physicians can now prescribe narcotics like cannabis, but for this they must have a recipe book which is issued and controlled by the Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris), if it does not have this, the doctor can become jail creditor and a fine of up to 500 days of minimum wage.
“Cofepris is not prepared for the avalanche of this type of medical prescriptions that is coming their way. Doctors can now access this prescription, which is controlled with QR, and once they are sold out, they will have to renew it. But the good news is that it only requires accreditation as a doctor with a professional license,” said Roberto Ibarra, founding partner of the Lawgic organization, which is dedicated to educating in legal matters.
AUTHORIZATION
Doctors can get authorization to prescribe narcotic drugs, as well as prescriptions authorized electronically, in the portal for doctors of http://www.gob.mx/cofepris/.
In which are the instructions for the procedure.
The attention of the requests will correspond to the health authority of each federative entity.
The prescription of narcotic drugs with this special prescription will be for treatments not exceeding thirty days, and the maximum number of units prescribed per day must be adjusted to the therapeutic indications of the product and the other current provisions applicable to the prescription.
The special prescriptions with code of authorized bars by the Secretariat through COFEPRIS, control in the issuance of recipesas well as the use of the username and the electronic password for entering the Electronic System of Sanitary Procedures are sole responsibility of the professional, who undertakes to give the proper use to them.
TO DO?
As a first step you must register in the COFEPRIS system. Which will verify your data and inform you via email that you can now print your recipe book.
The requirements to register are:
- Being doctors, homeopaths, dental surgeons, for dental cases or veterinary doctors, when they prescribe them to be applied to animals.
- Have a personal email account
- Have your valid official identification scanned, your certified copy of the professional license of the medicine and/or specialty career and the proof of address (not older than 3 months of its issue) that you will indicate on the form
- (Hospital units only) Scan a free letter signed by the director of the institution and on letterhead, where the doctor is designated as responsible for prescribing narcotic drugs.
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