Controlled Substances 1
The 1970 Controlled Substance Act (CSA) created this many levels of controlled substances based on their abuse potential.
What is 5?
The length of time a prescription for a schedule C-III or C-IV controlled substance is valid for.
What is 6 months (from the date written)
The number of refills allowed on a schedule C-II controlled substance.
What is zero?
The number of refills allowed on a C-III or C-IV controlled substance.
What is 5 refills?
This reference is used to look up average wholesale prices of a medication
What is the Red Book?
The number of refills allowed on a C-V controlled substance.
What is as many as the physician wrote (up to a year from the date written)
The form used to order schedule C-II controlled substances.
What is DEA 222?
This is the daily and monthly limit in the retail setting for pseudoephedrine.
What is 3.6 grams per day and 9 grams per month?
The schedule of controlled substance that has a high potential for abuse and no approved medical use.
What is C-I?
This is the common name for the FDA's Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations?
What is the Orange Book?
The form used to register with the DEA before opening a pharmacy for the first time.
What is DEA Form 224?
The CMEA of 2005 established strict control over the OTC sale of these two drugs.
What are ephedrine and pseudoephedrine?
This DEA form is used to request permission to destroy unwanted controlled substances.
What is form 41?
These habit forming controlled substances may be sold by a pharmacist without a prescription if certain conditions are met.
what are exempt narcotics?
This book is the best source for comparing drug bioavailabiliity and generic substitution
What is the Orange Book?
What controlled substance inventory must be completed every other year in a pharmacy?
What is the biennial inventory?
This is the form used to report the loss of a significant amount of controlled substances.
What is DEA Form 106
The number of times a controlled substance prescription may be transferred between pharmacies that do not share an online database
What is one?
This pharmacy reference contains manufacturer package inserts.
What is the PDR (Physician's Desk Reference)
This reference is useful when a patient visiting from a foreign country needs to find out the name of their medication in the United States.
What is Martindale?
The first five letters of an NDC number correspond to this.
What is the manufacturer?
In order to legally substitute a generic product for the brand name product, the bioavailability rating in the FDA's Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalency Evaluations must begin with this letter
What is an "A"?
If a patient authorized the dispensing of a partial prescription of a schedule C-II controlled substance, the pharmacy has this long to provide the medication to the patient or the prescription is void.
What is 30 days?
This is the age requirement, sales quantity and number of hours a patient must wait to purchase exempt narcotics again.
what is 18 years old, 120mL and 48 hours
This is the best source for drug stability, purity, storage and identification, and is the official compendium of drug products in the United States.
What is the USP-NF? (United States Pharmacopeia-National Formulary)?