Law Chapter 3

Prescriptive authority
- up to the states
- MD, DO, DVM, Dentist, podiatrist, APN and PAC can prescribe
Prescribing to self

prescribers can prescribe non-controlled subsances for themselves and family members
Three methods of switching Rx to OTC
- SNDA
- petition
- adding or amending OTC drug monograph (affects all drugs in the class)
Emergency contraception

must be 17 and older
Products contain same active ingredients and are identical in strength and dosage form

pharmaceutical equivalents
Bioequivalent pharmaceutical equivalents

presumed to be therapeutically equivalent
NTI drugs
- narrow therapeutic index
- less than 2 fold difference between median lethal dose and median effective dose or min toxic and min effective dose
Poison prevention packaging act
- protect children from accidental poisoning
- administered by consumer product safety commission
- standards for child resistant containers
Exemptions to poison prevention pkg act
- pharmacies
- mfgs
- commonly dispensed drugs
- prescriber requests
- patient requests
- institutionalized pt
- certain emergency drugs

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Law Chapter 3

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Law Chapter 3

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2011-09-20T15:13:53Z