Iowa Code § 147.162: Rules and directives relating to opioids.

1. Any board created under this chapter that licenses a prescribing practitioner shall adopt rules under chapter 17A establishing penalties for prescribing practitioners that prescribe opioids in dosage amounts exceeding what would be prescribed by a reasonably prudent prescribing practitioner engaged in the same practice.

2. For the purposes of this section, “prescribing practitioner” means a licensed health care professional with the authority to prescribe prescription drugs including opioids.