A duly licensed manufacturer or wholesaler may sell and dispense controlled drugs only to any of the following persons, and only on official written orders:
I. To a manufacturer, wholesaler, or pharmacist.

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Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 318-B:5

  • Controlled drugs: means any drug or substance, or immediate precursor, which is scheduled pursuant to N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 318-B:1
  • Dispense: means to distribute, leave with, give away, dispose of, deliver, or sell one or more doses of and shall include the transfer of more than a single dose of a medication from one container to another and the labelling or otherwise identifying a container holding more than a single dose of a drug. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 318-B:1
  • following: when used by way of reference to any section of these laws, shall mean the section next preceding or following that in which such reference is made, unless some other is expressly designated. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:13
  • Laboratory: means a scientific or medical establishment entrusted with the custody of controlled drugs and the use of controlled drugs for scientific and medical purposes and for purposes of instruction, research or analysis. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 318-B:1
  • Manufacturer: means a person who, by compounding, mixing, cultivating, growing or other process, produces or prepares controlled drugs, but shall not mean a pharmacist who compounds controlled drugs to be sold or dispensed on prescription. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 318-B:1
  • Person: means any corporation, association or partnership, or one or more individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 318-B:1
  • Pharmacist: means a person authorized by law to practice pharmacy pursuant to RSA 318. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 318-B:1
  • Pharmacy: means an establishment licensed pursuant to RSA 318. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 318-B:1
  • Physician: means a person authorized by law to practice medicine in this state pursuant to RSA 329. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 318-B:1
  • Practitioner: means any person who is lawfully entitled to prescribe, administer, dispense or distribute controlled drugs to patients. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 318-B:1
  • state: when applied to different parts of the United States, may extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
  • United States: shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
  • Wholesaler: means a person who supplies or distributes controlled drugs that he himself has not produced or prepared to hospitals, practitioners, pharmacies, other wholesalers, manufacturers or federal, state and municipal agencies. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 318-B:1

II. To a practitioner.
III. To that person in each hospital designated as in charge of controlled drugs, but only for use by that hospital, pursuant to the restrictions of the board of pharmacy license.
IV. To that person in each laboratory designated as in charge of controlled drugs, but only for use in that laboratory for scientific and medical purposes.
V. To a person in the employ of the United States government or of any state, territorial, district, county, municipal, or insular government purchasing, receiving, possessing, or dispensing controlled drugs by reason of his official duties, upon an exempt official order form as required by the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, as amended.
VI. To a master of a ship or a person in charge of any aircraft upon which no physician is regularly employed, or to a physician or surgeon, duly licensed in some state, territory, or the District of Columbia to practice his profession, or to a retired commissioned medical officer of the United States Army, Navy, or Public Health Service employed upon such ship or aircraft for the medical needs of persons on board such ship or aircraft, or to a physician, surgeon, or retired commissioned medical officer of the United States Army, Navy, or Public Health Service employed upon such ship or aircraft only in pursuance of a special order form approved by the Attorney General of the United States.
VII. To a person in a foreign country if the provisions of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, as amended, are complied with.