Connecticut General Statutes 21a-250 – Rights and duties of pharmacist
(a) A pharmacist, in good faith, may sell and dispense controlled substances to any person upon a prescription of a physician or dentist, podiatrist, optometrist, veterinarian, physician assistant licensed pursuant to § 20-12b, advanced practice registered nurse, or nurse-midwife to the extent that they are authorized to prescribe such controlled substances. Except as otherwise provided by regulations adopted pursuant to § 21a-244, the person filling or refilling the prescription shall include the date of filling and the person’s signature or initials on any prescription for controlled substances, and the prescription shall be retained on file by the proprietor of the pharmacy in which it is filled for a period of three years, so as to be readily accessible for inspection by any public officer or employee engaged in the enforcement of this chapter. The prescription shall not be filled or refilled unless permitted by federal food and drug laws, the federal Controlled Substances Act and regulations adopted under this chapter.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 21a-250
- another: may extend and be applied to communities, companies, corporations, public or private, limited liability companies, societies and associations. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
- Controlled substance: means a drug, substance, or immediate precursor in schedules I to V, inclusive, of the Connecticut controlled substance scheduling regulations adopted pursuant to §. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
- Dentist: means a person authorized by law to practice dentistry in this state. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
- Dispense: means to deliver a controlled substance to an ultimate user or research subject by or pursuant to the lawful order of a practitioner, including the prescribing, administering, packaging, labeling or compounding necessary to prepare the substance for the delivery. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
- Distribute: means to deliver other than by administering or dispensing a controlled substance. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
- Distributor: means a person who distributes and includes a wholesaler who is a person supplying or distributing controlled drugs which he himself has not produced or prepared to hospitals, clinics, practitioners, pharmacies, other wholesalers, manufacturers and federal, state and municipal agencies. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
- Drug: means (A) substances recognized as drugs in the official United States Pharmacopoeia, official Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States, or official National Formulary, or any supplement to any of them. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
- Nurse: means a person performing nursing as defined in §. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
- Official written order: means an order for controlled substances written on a form provided by the bureau for that purpose under the federal Controlled Substances Act. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
- Person: includes any corporation, limited liability company, association or partnership, or one or more individuals, government or governmental subdivisions or agency, business trust, estate, trust, or any other legal entity. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
- Pharmacist: means a person authorized by law to practice pharmacy pursuant to §. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
- Pharmacy: means an establishment licensed pursuant to §. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
- Physician: means a person authorized by law to practice medicine in this state pursuant to §. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
- Podiatrist: means a person authorized by law to practice podiatry in this state. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
- Practitioner: means : (A) A physician, dentist, veterinarian, podiatrist, scientific investigator or other person licensed, registered or otherwise permitted to distribute, dispense, conduct research with respect to or to administer a controlled substance in the course of professional practice or research in this state. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
- Prescribe: means order or designate a remedy or any preparation containing controlled substances. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
- Prescription: means a written, oral or electronic order for any controlled substance or preparation from a licensed practitioner to a pharmacist for a patient. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
- Registrant: means any person licensed by this state and assigned a current federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drug Registry Number as provided under the federal Controlled Substances Act. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
- Registry number: means the alphabetical or numerical designation of identification assigned to a person by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, or other federal agency, which is commonly known as the federal registry number. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
- State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes any state, district, commonwealth, territory or insular possession thereof, and any area subject to the legal authority of the United States of America. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
- Veterinarian: means a person authorized by law to practice veterinary medicine in this state. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
- Wholesaler: means a distributor or a person who supplies controlled substances that he himself has not produced or prepared to registrants as defined in subdivision (47) of this section. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
(b) The legal owner of any stock of controlled substances in a pharmacy, upon discontinuance of dealing in such substances, may sell such stock to a manufacturer, distributor, practitioner, wholesaler or pharmacy, but schedule II substances may only be sold on such written order as is required by the federal Controlled Substances Act.
(c) A pharmacist, only upon an official written order, may sell to a registrant the kinds and quantities of aqueous or oleaginous schedule II substances which he has prepared and which are permitted by the federal Controlled Substances Act.
(d) (1) A retail pharmacy or pharmacy within a licensed hospital may distribute small quantities of schedule III, IV or V controlled substances to another pharmacy to provide for the immediate needs of a patient pursuant to a prescription or medication order of a practitioner. As used in this subsection “small quantities” means not more than one ounce of a powder or ointment, not more than sixteen ounces of a liquid and not more than one hundred dosage units of tablets, capsules, suppositories or injectables. (2) A retail pharmacy may distribute, in accordance with state and federal statutes and regulations, a schedule II, III, IV or V controlled substance to a practitioner who has a current federal and state registry number authorizing such practitioner to purchase such controlled substances, and who is the medical director of a chronic and convalescent nursing home, of a rest home with nursing supervision or of a state correctional institution, for use as emergency stock within such facility. Such drugs shall be supplied in containers which bear labels specifying the name of the drug and its strength, expiration date, lot number and manufacturer. Drugs supplied pursuant to this subsection shall be limited in type and quantity to those specifically documented and authorized by such medical director for use as emergency stock in such facility. (3) Pharmacies distributing controlled substances in accordance with the provisions of subdivisions (1) and (2) of this subsection shall keep a written record of such transactions containing the name of the receiving pharmacy, or the name and federal registry number of a medical director, date distributed and name, form, strength and quantity of such controlled substances distributed. Such records shall be kept on file separately, in accordance with subsection (h) of § 21a-254. Receiving pharmacies or medical directors, shall keep, in a separate file, a written record in accordance with subsections (f) and (h) of § 21a-254.