Exempt categories where the 2019 Amendments to the 2018 TN Together Opioid Law does not apply:

 active cancer treatment
 palliative care treatment
 hospice care treatment
 sickle cell disease
 inpatients in the hospital
 prescriptions issued by pain management specialists or under the collaborative direction of a pain management specialist after that specialist or their APRN or PA have seen the patient
 patients who have been treated with daily opioids already for 90 days or more in the past 365 days
 methadone, or other products approved for treatment of opioid use disorder
 treatment with an opioid antagonist
 severe burn
 major physical trauma

References:

• 2018 TN Together Opioid Prescribing Law
•  TN Chronic Pain Guidelines and the CDC Guidelines