§ 225.040. Who May Prescribe.

A. 

A physician, podiatrist, dentist, or a registered optometrist certified to administer pharmaceutical agents as provided in Section 336.220, RSMo., or such other people as authorized by State Statute, in good faith and in the course of their professional practice only, may prescribe, administer, and dispense controlled substances or they may cause the same to be administered or dispensed by a nurse or graduate physician under their direction and supervision.

B. 

A veterinarian, in good faith and in the course of their professional practice only, and not for use by a human being, may prescribe, administer, and dispense controlled substances and they may cause them to be administered by an assistant or orderly under their direction and supervision.

C. 

Any person who has obtained from a physician, podiatrist, dentist, optometrist, or veterinarian any controlled substance for administration to a patient during the absence of such physician, podiatrist, dentist, optometrist, or veterinarian, shall return to such physician, dentist, podiatrist, optometrist, or veterinarian any unused portion of such drug, when it is no longer required by the patient.

R.O. 1996 § 225.040