# Title 23 — Health and Safety

## Chapter 23-23.1 — Laetrile

### § 23-23.1-01. Use of laetrile authorized.

No hospital or health facility may interfere with the physician-patient relationship by
restricting or forbidding the use of amygdalin when prescribed or administered by a licensed
physician and requested by a patient unless the substance as prescribed or administered by the
physician is found to be harmful by the North Dakota board of medicine in a hearing conducted
pursuant to chapter 28-32.
### § 23-23.1-02. Disciplinary action for administering or prescribing laetrile subject to

finding of harmfulness.
No physician may be subject to disciplinary action by the North Dakota board of medicine
for prescribing or administering amygdalin to a patient under the physician's care who has
requested the substance unless the board, in a hearing conducted pursuant to chapter 28-32,
has made a formal finding that the substance is harmful.
### § 23-23.1-03. Hearing of board on effects of laetrile - Rules.

Any person may petition, or the board on its own motion may convene, a public hearing to
determine the effects of the use of amygdalin and to promulgate rules and regulations pursuant
to chapter 28-32 as to its use and administration.
