§ 11170 Self-Prescribing Controlled Substances

• •You can't give yourself medicine that the government controls, like strong painkillers.
• •This means no writing your own prescription, no taking the medicine yourself if you're the doctor, and no giving it to yourself in any way.
• •This rule is about keeping people safe from misusing powerful drugs.

A doctor has a bad back and wants to take some strong pain pills that only doctors can prescribe.

The doctor can't just write a prescription for themselves or take the pills without a prescription from another doctor. They have to follow the same rules as everyone else.