059-12 Wyo. Code R. §§ 12-21 - Medications brought into the institution by patients
Whenever patients bring drugs into an institutional facility, such drugs shall not be administered unless they can be precisely identified; administration shall be pursuant to a practitioner's order. If such drugs are not to be administered, they shall be delivered to the institutional pharmacy, packaged, sealed, and returned to an adult (18 years or older) member of the patient's immediate family (spouse, unless legally separated; adult child; parent; grandparent; adult brother or sister; adult grandchild), the patient's legal guardian or conservator, or the patient's designated agent, or they shall be stored and returned to the patient upon discharge, only after advice is provided regarding continuing the returned medication.
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