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Statutes > Virginia > Title-37-2 > Chapter-8 > 37-2-843§ 37.2-843. Providing drugs or medicines for certain persons discharged fromstate facilities.
When any consumer is discharged from a state facility and he or the personliable for his care and treatment is financially unable to pay for orotherwise access drugs or medicines that are prescribed for him by a memberof the medical staff of the state facility in order to mitigate or prevent arecurrence of the condition for which he has received care and treatment inthe state facility, the Department or the community services board orbehavioral health authority serving the consumer's county or city ofresidence may, from funds appropriated to the Department for that purpose,provide the consumer with such drugs and medicines, which shall be dispensedonly in accordance with law.
(Code 1950, § 37-92.1; 1958, c. 158; 1968, c. 477, § 37.1-101; 1986, c. 349;2005, c. 716.)
