The State Board of Pharmacy shall also have the following responsibilities in regard to medications, drugs, devices and other materials used in this state in the diagnosis, mitigation and treatment or prevention of injury, illness and disease:

Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 689.155

  • dispensing: means the preparation and delivery of a prescription drug pursuant to a lawful order of a practitioner in a suitable container appropriately labeled for subsequent administration to or use by a patient or other individual entitled to receive the prescription drug. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
  • Distribute: means the delivery of a drug other than by administering or dispensing. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
  • Drug outlet: means a pharmacy, nursing home, shelter home, convalescent home, extended care facility, drug abuse treatment center, penal institution, hospital, family planning clinic, student health center, retail store, wholesaler, manufacturer, mail-order vendor or other establishment with facilities located within or out of this state that is engaged in dispensing, delivery or distribution of drugs within this state. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Manufacture: means the production, preparation, propagation, compounding, conversion or processing of a device or a drug, either directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of natural origin or independently by means of chemical synthesis or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis and includes any packaging or repackaging of the substances or labeling or relabeling of its container, except that this term does not include the preparation or compounding of a drug by an individual for their own use or the preparation, compounding, packaging or labeling of a drug:

    (a) By a practitioner as an incident to administering or dispensing of a drug in the course of professional practice; or

    (b) By a practitioner or by the practitioner's authorization under supervision of the practitioner for the purpose of or as an incident to research, teaching or chemical analysis and not for sale. See Oregon Statutes 689.005

  • Pharmacy: means a place that meets the requirements of rules of the board, is licensed and approved by the board where the practice of pharmacy may lawfully occur and includes apothecaries, drug stores, dispensaries, hospital outpatient pharmacies, pharmacy departments and prescription laboratories but does not include a place used by a manufacturer or wholesaler. See Oregon Statutes 689.005

(1)(a) The regulation of the sale at retail, the administering by pharmacists to the extent provided in ORS § 689.645 and 689.655 and the dispensing of medications, drugs, devices and other materials including the right to seize any such drugs, devices and other materials found to be detrimental to the public health and welfare by the board after appropriate hearing as required under ORS Chapter 183.

(b) The regulation of the administering by pharmacy technicians to the extent provided in ORS § 689.645 of medications and drugs.

(2) The specifications of minimum professional and technical equipment, environment, supplies and procedures for the compounding, administering and dispensing of such medications, drugs, devices and other materials within the practice of pharmacy and any drug outlet.

(3) The control of the purity and quality of such medications, drugs, devices and other materials within the practice of pharmacy and any drug outlet.

(4) The issuance and renewal of certificates of registration of drug outlets for purposes of ascertaining those persons engaged in the manufacture and distribution of drugs, receiving and collecting annual fees therefrom and suspending, revoking or refusing to renew such registration in the manner provided in this chapter.

(5) In conjunction with the regularly constituted law enforcement agencies of this state, enforce all laws of the state which pertain to the practice of pharmacy, the manufacture, production, sale or distribution of drugs, chemicals and poisons, and to their standard of strength and purity.

(6) Investigate all complaints of alleged violations of this chapter and take necessary action as the board may require or direct.

(7) Pursuant to ORS Chapter 183, make such rules as are necessary and feasible for carrying out ORS § 453.175, 453.185, 475.005, 475.135 and 475.185 and this chapter and make rules relating to controlled substances, designated as such pursuant to ORS § 475.025 and 475.035.

(8) At all reasonable hours, in performance of the duties imposed by this section, enter, or cause its authorized representatives to enter upon, and examine the premises or records required by law of any drug outlet under the jurisdiction of the board.

(9) Assist the regularly constituted law enforcement agencies of this state in enforcing ORS § 453.005 to 453.135, 475.005 and 475.135 and this chapter by prosecution in the courts of this state or otherwise.

(10) Cause to have made a regular inspection of all pharmacies.

(11) Pursuant to ORS Chapter 183, make such rules as are necessary for pharmacies, drug manufacturers and wholesalers to sell or otherwise lawfully distribute designated pharmaceutical agents to licensed optometrists consistent with the provisions of ORS § 683.010 to 683.340. [1979 c.777 § 19; 1985 c.565 § 100; 1999 c.350 § 4; 2001 c.632 § 5; 2023 c.306 § 2]

 

[Amended by 1969 c.514 § 4; 1979 c.785 § 8; repealed by 1977 c.842 § 45 and 1979 c.777 § 59]

 

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