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Title 43. PROFESSIONS AND BUSINESSES · Chapter 34. PHYSICIANS, ACUPUNCTURE, PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS, CANCER AND GLAUCOMA TREATMENT, RESPIRATORY CARE, CLINICAL PERFUSIONISTS, AND ORTHOTICS AND PROSTHETICS PRACTICE · Article 10. PAIN MANAGEMENT CLINIC

43-34-281. Legislative intent.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (a)

    This article is enacted for the purpose of safeguarding the public health, safety, and welfare by providing for state administrative control, supervision, and regulation of pain management clinics. It is the intention of the General Assembly that people be able to obtain appropriate and safe medical care to treat conditions in which the control of pain is an element. However, the illegal and improper distribution of controlled substances is a growing problem in this state. Licensure and regulation of pain management clinics will better protect the public from criminal activities associated with the illegal distribution of controlled substances as well as provide for a safer place for people to obtain appropriate medical treatment by requiring certain minimum training of practitioners and by the regulation of pain management clinics.#

  2. (b)

    Nothing in this article shall be construed to limit the authority and regulations of the board relating to pain management as such authority and regulations existed on June 30, 2013.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 43-34-281, enacted by Ga. L. 2013, p. 515, § 2/HB 178.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t43-ch33-51-(v30a)-2021-pdf.pdf, Volume V30A, 2021 edition, pages 225 to 226; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 6fb9eb45ca3a.