124.504 - COOPERATIVE ARRANGEMENTS AND CONFIDENTIALITY.

        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