Required Training for Prescribers of Controlled Substances
Section 402 · Sec. 402 ·
What this chapter is about
This part changes a training rule for people who prescribe controlled drugs. It adds several professional groups whose courses count. It adds foot doctors and pharmacy schools to the rule. It also fixes a numbering clash. The change counts as if made in 2022.
The document says “is amended”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 402 in the PDF
What the document says
“by redesignating the second subsection designated as subsection (l) as subsection (m)”
The section renumbers the second of two subsections both labelled (l) in section 303 of the Controlled Substances Act as subsection (m). The rest of the section's amendments then run to that renumbered subsection.
What the document actually says
“by redesignating the second subsection designated as subsection (l) as subsection (m)”
That sentence, in plain words
Two parts of an older law had the same letter. One of them gets a new letter. It was (l) and is now (m).
What this is about
Two parts with the same label are hard to cite. A reader cannot tell which one is meant. Giving one a new letter clears that up.
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The document says “is amended”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 402 in the PDF
What the document says
“by inserting ``the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Podiatric Medical Association, the Academy of General Dentistry, the American Optometric Association,'' before ``or any other organization''”
The section adds four named organizations to the list in section 303(m)(1)(A)(iv)(I) of the Controlled Substances Act, and adds the Council on Podiatric Medical Education to the accrediting bodies named in the same clause.
What the document actually says
“by inserting ``the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Podiatric Medical Association, the Academy of General Dentistry, the American Optometric Association,'' before ``or any other organization''”
That sentence, in plain words
Four more groups are named in the law. Their courses now count toward the training. The list already had other groups on it.
What this is about
The groups named are for family doctors, foot doctors, dentists and eye doctors. A prescriber who takes their course meets the rule.
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The section adds podiatric medicine to the fields of schooling named in section 303(m)(1)(A)(v) of the Controlled Substances Act, and changes the phrase dental medicine curriculum to dental or podiatric medicine curriculum.
Two words are added to a list of school subjects. The words are podiatric medicine. That is the study of the foot.
What this is about
The rule counts what a person studied in school. Adding a field means graduates of it can meet the rule that way.
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The document says “is amended”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 402 in the PDF
What the document says
“by inserting ``the American Pharmacists Association, the Accreditation Council on Pharmacy Education, the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, the American Academy of Nursing, the American Academy of Family Physicians,'' before ``or any other organization''”
The section adds five named organizations to the list in section 303(m)(1)(B)(i) of the Controlled Substances Act, and amends clause (ii) so that an accredited school of pharmacy counts alongside the schools already named.
What the document actually says
“by inserting ``the American Pharmacists Association, the Accreditation Council on Pharmacy Education, the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, the American Academy of Nursing, the American Academy of Family Physicians,'' before ``or any other organization''”
That sentence, in plain words
Five more groups go into a second list. Their courses count toward the training too. A pharmacy school is added in the next clause.
What this is about
The groups named are for pharmacists and for nurses. One is for family doctors. The list already held other groups.
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“The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect as if enacted on December 29, 2022.”
The section gives the amendment made by subsection (a) retroactive effect, treating it as though it had been enacted on December 29, 2022. This Act itself was approved on December 1, 2025.
What the document actually says
“The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect as if enacted on December 29, 2022.”
That sentence, in plain words
The change counts from an earlier day. That day is December 29, 2022. It is treated as if it was law then.
What this is about
This is called a retroactive date. It reaches back before the law was signed. Training taken since that day can count.
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Each change that alters whose training counts: the renumbering that fixes a duplicated subsection letter, the added organizations in each of the two lists, the added podiatric and pharmacy schooling, and the retroactive effective date.
Purely mechanical amendments. Changing an or to a comma, and shifting punctuation inside a list, are recorded only where they change whose training counts.
The section works by amending section 303 of the Controlled Substances Act, which is not indexed here, so nothing is recorded about the training requirement itself or about what the rest of that section says.
