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124-504
124.504 COOPERATIVE ARRANGEMENTS AND
CONFIDENTIALITY.
1. The department and board, subject to approval and direction of
the governor, shall cooperate with federal and other state agencies
in discharging its responsibilities concerning traffic in controlled
substances and in suppressing the abuse of controlled substances. To
this end, they may jointly:
a. Arrange for the exchange of information between
governmental officials concerning the use and abuse of controlled
substances.
b. Coordinate and cooperate in training programs on
controlled substance law enforcement at the local and state levels.
c. Cooperate with the bureau by establishing a centralized
unit which will accept, catalogue, file, and collect statistics,
including records of drug dependent persons and other controlled
substance law offenders within the state, and make such information
available for federal, state and local law enforcement purposes;
except that they shall not furnish the name or identity of a patient
or research subject whose identity could not be obtained under
subsection 3.
d. Conduct programs of eradication aimed at destroying wild
or illicit growth of plant species from which controlled substances
may be extracted.
2. Results, information, and evidence received from the bureau
relating to the regulatory functions of this chapter, including
results of inspections conducted by that agency may be relied upon
and acted upon by the board or the department in the exercise of
their regulatory functions under this chapter.
3. A practitioner engaged in medical practice or research or the
Iowa drug abuse authority or any program which is licensed by the
authority shall not be required to furnish the name or identity of a
patient or research subject to the board or the department, nor shall
the practitioner or the authority or any program which is licensed by
the authority be compelled in any state or local civil, criminal,
administrative, legislative or other proceedings to furnish the name
or identity of an individual that the practitioner or the authority
or any of its licensed programs is obligated to keep confidential.
Section History: Early Form
[C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 204.504] Section History: Recent Form
C93, § 124.504
