Physician privilege

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  2. District of Columbia Code
  3. Foods and Drugs
  4. Controlled Substances Generally
  5. Physicians and Controlled Substances
  6. Physician privilege

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Information communicated to a physician in an effort unlawfully to procure controlled substances, or unlawfully to procure the administration of any such controlled substances, shall not be deemed a privileged communication.

(June 20, 1938, 52 Stat. 795, ch. 532, § 20; Aug. 5, 1981, D.C. Law 4-29, § 604(b)(4), 28 DCR 3081.)

Prior Codifications

1981 Ed., § 33-566.

1973 Ed., § 33-420.

Editor's Notes

Subsection (b) of former § 33-521 was redesignated to be § 33-566 1981 Ed. upon the enactment of D.C. Law 4-29.


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