Name the Law
Under the act, each new drug is assigned a unique and permanent produce code, called the NDC.
Drug Listing Act of 1972
The Poison Prevention Packaging Act was enacted as a means of protecting children from accidental poisoning by requiring child-resistant containers. What year was this law made?
1970
The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 prohibited the ______, sale, or transportation of adulterated or _____ food and drugs. It ensured that labels did not contain false information.
This law requires pharmacists to complete a DUR for all Rx at point of sale. It also requires that customers picking up a Rx must be offered counseling with the pharmacist.
DEA
Drug enforcement Admin
This law bans the re-importation of drugs into the United States by anyone but the manufacture.
This Law was designed to prevent people from traveling to Canada to get cheaper drugs.
Prescription Drug Marketing Act of 1987
The Drug Price Competition and Patent-Term Restoration Act was a response to laws that made obtaining generic drugs difficult. This Act was created in ____, when there was a lot of political pressure to decrease healthcare costs.
1984
The Kefauver-Harris Amendment of 1962 said that drug advertising now had to disclose accurate information about ____ ____ and efficacy of treatments.
side effects
Manufacturers of vitamins, herbs, minerals, and nutritional substance are NOT required by law to prove safety, efficacy, or standardization to the FDA but they cannot make claims about their product treating, preventing, or curing diseases.
Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1984
NDC
National Drug Code
As one of the most important pharmaceutical laws, this created the FDA
Food Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1938
The Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act created the FDA in what year?
1938
Orphan Drug Act of 1983 provides ___ ___ and extended exclusive licenses to drug manufacturers who create such drugs for patients who suffer from rare diseases.
tax incentives
For pharmacy techs, this law requires they must not reveal any information on any patient outside the pharmacy
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)
CSA
Controlled substances act
This act was created to combat drug abuse. It divided drugs with the potential for dependence into five schedules, with schedule 1 having the highest chance of abuse.
Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970
The Anabolic Steroid Act was created in ____ and updated in ____
1990, 2004
This 1990 law identified ____ ____ as a schedule 3 drug, which gives the FDA and DEA powers to enforce the law for legal drugs as well as illegal imports.
anabolic steroids
OBRA
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
"Caution: Federal Law prohibits dispensing without a prescription."
Durham-Humphrey Amendment of 1951
Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (aka Medicare Part D) was created in
2003
H___ I____ P____ A_____ A____ of 1996
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
This act is in response to diversion and illegal manufacture of OTC products into highly addictive stimulant methamphetamine.
Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005
DUR
Drug Utilization Review