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NRS 62B.530 - Detention facilities to establish policies concerning accessibility, administration and concurrent use of psychotropic medication for children.

NV Rev Stat § 62B.530 (2019) (N/A)
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Each detention facility shall establish appropriate policies to ensure that children who are detained in the detention facility have timely access to and safe administration of clinically appropriate psychotropic medication. The policies must include, without limitation, policies concerning:

1. The use of psychotropic medication in a manner that has not been tested or approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration, including, without limitation, the use of such medication for a child who is of an age that has not been tested or approved or who has a condition for which the use of the medication has not been tested or approved;

2. The concurrent use by a child of three or more classes of psychotropic medication; and

3. The concurrent use by a child of two psychotropic medications of the same class.

(Added to NRS by 2017, 746)

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