(a) Every person who manufactures, distributes, prescribes, administers, dispenses, or conducts research with any controlled substance within this state shall obtain annually a registration issued by the board in accordance with this chapter and its rules.
(b) Every prescriber, except veterinarians, shall also register with the division to obtain online access to the controlled substances prescriptions database.
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Terms Used In Idaho Code 37-2716

  • 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:
Idaho Code 37-2701
  • Agent: means an authorized person who acts on behalf of or at the direction of a manufacturer, distributor or dispenser. See Idaho Code 37-2701
  • Board: means the state board of pharmacy created in chapter 17, title 54, Idaho Code, or its successor agency. See Idaho Code 37-2701
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Controlled substance: means a drug, substance or immediate precursor in schedules I through VI of article II of this chapter. See Idaho Code 37-2701
  • 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 packaging, labeling, or compounding necessary to prepare the substance for that delivery. See Idaho Code 37-2701
  • Distribute: means to deliver other than by administering or dispensing a controlled substance. See Idaho Code 37-2701
  • Division: means the Idaho division of occupational and professional licenses. See Idaho Code 37-2701
  • 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.
  • Manufacture: means the production, preparation, propagation, compounding, conversion or processing of a controlled substance, and includes extraction, directly or indirectly, 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:
    • Idaho Code 37-2701
  • Person: means individual, corporation, government, or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, or any other legal entity. See Idaho Code 37-2701
  • Practitioner: means :
    • Idaho Code 37-2701
  • Prescribe: means a direction or authorization permitting an ultimate user to lawfully obtain or be administered controlled substances. See Idaho Code 37-2701
  • Prescriber: means an individual currently licensed, registered or otherwise authorized to prescribe and administer controlled substances in the course of professional practice. See Idaho Code 37-2701
  • 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 Idaho Code 37-2701
  • Ultimate user: means a person who lawfully possesses a controlled substance for his own use or for the use of a member of his household or for administering to an animal owned by him or by a member of his household. See Idaho Code 37-2701
    • (c) Persons registered by the board under this chapter may possess, manufacture, distribute, dispense, prescribe, administer, or conduct research with those substances to the extent authorized by their registration and licensing entity and in conformity with the other provisions of this chapter.
    (d) The following persons need not register and may lawfully possess controlled substances under this chapter:
    (1) An agent or employee of any person registered pursuant to this chapter, if he is acting in the usual course of his business or employment;
    (2) A common or contract carrier or warehouseman, or an employee thereof, whose possession of any controlled substance is in the usual course of business or employment;
    (3) An ultimate user or a person in possession of any controlled substance pursuant to a lawful order of a practitioner or in lawful possession of a schedule V substance.
    (e) The board may waive by rule the requirement for registration of certain persons if it finds it consistent with the public health and safety.
    (f) A separate registration is required at each principal place of business or professional practice where the applicant manufactures, distributes, administers, dispenses, or conducts research with controlled substances, except a separate registration is not required under this chapter for practitioners engaging in research with nonnarcotic controlled substances in schedules II through IV where the practitioner is already registered under this chapter in another capacity.
    (g) Practitioners registered under federal law to conduct research with schedule I substances may conduct research with schedule I substances within this state upon registering in Idaho and furnishing the board with evidence of the practitioner’s federal registration.
    (h) The board may inspect the establishment of a registrant or applicant for registration in accordance with this chapter and board rule.