…to 30 days after issuance of a prescription if necessary. Prior law and current DEA regulations allow pharmacists to partially fill schedule II controlled substance prescriptions only if the pharmacy…

…docket: 46: Number of new final orders (up from 28 in 2016) 44: Number of new final orders adjudicating individual (e.g., doctor, dentist, veterinarian) registrations (a pharmacy and a clinic…

You may be a doctor, dentist, veterinarian, pharmacy, wholesale distributor, or manufacturer, and you just received an Order to Show Cause from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). An Order to…

…is tied into the definitions set up by the Medicaid Drug Rebate statute, 42 U.S.C. § 1396r-8.  Until recently, however, the Office of Pharmacy Affairs (OPA) at the Health Resources…

…group for advertising purposes; and Direct or indirect gifts of $10,000 or more to a pharmacy licensed in West Virginia for advertising purposes. The first change from the December 2006…

…of the rule on the pharmacy profession.  (3) The rule shall take effect not later than 60 days after the date on which the rule is promulgated. On April 22,…

…course of professional practice; 2.         The practitioner provides written instructions on each prescription indicating the earliest date on which a pharmacy can fill the prescription; 3.       …

…prescription to the administrator of the program (which is also a licensed pharmacy), which would fill the prescription and send the product directly to the patient.  The physicians would never…

…Southern District of Texas. TDCJ initially challenged FDA’s delay in determining the admissibility, into domestic commerce, of an import shipment of the drug thiopental sodium for purposes of carrying out…

…pharmacy that reports a fraudulent prescription to him.” The practitioner “must report” to DEA and local enforcement authorities any information obtained from the practitioner’s investigation that shows a misuse of…

…the Journal of Managed Care and Specialty Pharmacy (“JMCP”), titled “The FDA Unapproved Drugs Initiative: An Observational Study of the Consequences for Drug Prices and Shortages in the United States.”…

By Kurt R. Karst –       Earlier this month, legislation was introduced in both the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives to fund FDA for the next fiscal year: Fiscal…

…Reg. 53,767 (Aug. 12, 2016). The states, through their own controlled substance authorities, pharmacy boards, departments of health or legislatures schedule and impose regulatory requirements on substances of abuse and…

…drug. Because many harm reduction programs don’t have a pharmacy or medical license, wholesale distributors may determine that they are ineligible to purchase prescription drugs. By statute, certain activities are…

…and, equally as important, acted contrary to the responsibilities applicable to both pharmacies and pharmacists based on the government’s argument that both the pharmacy and the prescriber should have objectively…