# Minnesota — State Opioid Initial Prescribing Limits For Minnesota, initial supply days is 7-day supply for adults; 5-day supply for minors under 18; 4-day supply for acute dental pain or acute pain associated with refractive surgery; applies to is Opiates or narcotic pain relievers listed in Schedules II through IV, for treatment of acute pain; exception provision is If, in the professional clinical judgment of a practitioner, more than the limit is required to treat a patient's acute pain, the practitioner may issue a prescription for the quantity needed to treat the patient's acute pain; mme limit is none; effective date is 2017, recorded from its source on 2026-08-17. - **state:** Minnesota _(verified: appears in the quote below)_ - **initial supply days:** 7-day supply for adults; 5-day supply for minors under 18; 4-day supply for acute dental pain or acute pain associated with refractive surgery - **applies to:** Opiates or narcotic pain relievers listed in Schedules II through IV, for treatment of acute pain _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_ - **exception provision:** If, in the professional clinical judgment of a practitioner, more than the limit is required to treat a patient's acute pain, the practitioner may issue a prescription for the quantity needed to treat the patient's acute pain - **mme limit:** none _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_ - **effective date:** 2017 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_ - **citation:** Minn. Stat. § 152.11, subd. 4 ## What the source says > 1Sp2017 c 6 art 12 s 2 ; 2019 c 63 art 2 s 6 -8; 2020 c 71 art 2 s 8 ; 2023 c 63 art 4 s 22 Official Publication of the State of Minnesota ## Source - https://revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/152.11 Last verified: 2026-08-17. Review by: 2027-08-17. Part of [State Opioid Initial Prescribing Limits](https://referencesource.org/state-opioid-prescribing-limits/).