NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

CHAPTER 626

HOUSE BILL 1248

AN ACT TO REQUIRE THAT PHARMACISTS PLACE WARNING LABELS ON ANY TRANQUILIZERS DISPENSED IF DIRECTED BY THE PRESCRIBER.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 106-134.1(b) is amended by adding a second paragraph to read as follows:

"Any tranquilizer or sedative dispensed by filling or refilling a written or oral prescription of a practitioner licensed by law to administer such drug shall be labelled by the pharmacist, if the prescriber so directs on the prescription, with a warning that: 'The consumption of alcoholic beverages while on this medication can be harmful to your health'."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective January 1, 1980.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of May, 1979.