Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 16 > Chapter 47 > Subchapter III - Regulation of Manufacture, Distribution and Dispensing of Controlled Substances

• addiction: shall mean dependence upon a drug in the following manner:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701

• Administer: means the direct application of a controlled substance, whether by injection, inhalation, ingestion or any other means to the body of a patient or research subject by:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701

• Administration: means the Drug Enforcement Administration, United States Department of Justice or its successor agency. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
• Agent: means an authorized person who acts on behalf of or at the direction of a manufacturer, distributor or dispenser. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Benzodiazepine: means any substance or drug which contains a benzene ring fused to a 7-member diazepine ring, results in the depression of the central nervous system and is primarily intended to treat insomnia, convulsions and anxiety, and used for muscle relaxation and pre-operation treatment including alprazolam, clonazepam, diazepam, lorazepam, and temazepam. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• controlled substance: includes "designer drug" as defined in paragraph (10) of this section. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• delivery: means the actual, constructive or attempted transfer from one person to another of a controlled substance, whether or not there is an agency relationship. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
• 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 for a legitimate medical purpose by an individual practitioner in the usual course of the practitioner's professional practice, administering, packaging, labeling or compounding necessary to prepare the substance for that delivery. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
• Dispenser: means a practitioner who dispenses. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
• Distribute: means to deliver other than by administering or dispensing a controlled substance. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
• Distributor: means a person who distributes. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
• Division: means the Division of Public Health. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 101
• Drug: means (i) 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; (ii) substances intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease in man or animals; (iii) substances (other than food) intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or animals; and (iv) substances intended for use as a component of any article specified in clause (i), (ii) or (iii) of this paragraph. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Finished drug product: means a drug legally marketed under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• 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.
• Knowingly: means a person acts knowingly with respect to any delivery, possession, use or consumption within the meaning of this chapter when the person knows or is aware of such delivery, possession, use or consumption. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
• Licensed practitioner: means any individual who is authorized by law to prescribe drugs in the course of professional practice or research in any state. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
• Manufacture: means the production, preparation, propagation, compounding, conversion or processing of a controlled substance, 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 substance or labeling or relabeling of its container except that this term does not include the preparation or compounding of a controlled substance by an individual for the individual's own use or the preparation, compounding, packaging or labeling of a controlled substance:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701

• Non-benzodiazepine hypnotic: means any zaleplon, zolpidem, and any schedule II or schedule III drug, as defined by the Controlled Substances Act, 21 U. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
• Other controlled substance registrants: means all persons and firms, except persons or firms exempt from registration, who are not classified as pharmacies, distributors, manufacturers, practitioners or researchers. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: means individual, corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, statutory trust, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, or any other legal entity. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
• Practitioner: means :

  a. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701

• Prescribe: means to give an order for medication or other therapy by authorized personnel which is dispensed to or for an ultimate user but does not include an order for medication which is dispensed for immediate administration to the ultimate user. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
• Production: includes the manufacturing, planting, cultivating, growing or harvesting of a controlled substance. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
• Proof of age: means a document issued by a governmental agency that gives the person's date of birth including a passport, military identification card, or driver's license. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
• Researcher: means all persons and firms, not a practitioner, who routinely performs scholarly or scientific investigations or inquiries. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
• Secretary: means Secretary of the Department of State or the Secretary's designee in paragraph (22) of this section; §§ 4711; 4713; 4715; 4717; 4718(l); 4719; 4720(c); 4721; 4731; 4732; 4733; 4734(a) and (b); 4735 (b), (c) and (d); 4736(a) and (b); 4737; 4738; 4739(b); 4762(e)(2); 4781(1); 4782; 4783(b); 4785; 4786; 4787(b), (c), (d), (e) and 4791(d) of this title. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
• State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes any state, district, commonwealth, territory, insular possession thereof and any area subject to the legal authority of the United States of America. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Ultimate user: means a person who lawfully possesses a controlled substance for the person's own use or for the use of a member of the person's household or for administering to an animal owned by the person or by a member of the person's household. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701