Pharmacy Laws
This 1906 law prohibited interstate transportation or sale of adulterated or misbranded medications and food.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
This act requires most oral medications to be dispensed in child-resistant containers.
What is the Poison Prevention Packaging Act?
The letters USP stand for this.
What is United States Pharmacopeia?
This reference provides easy-to-understand medication information for patients.
What is USP-DI Advice for the Patient?
This online reference provides average wholesale price information for brand-name and generic medications.
What is the Red Book?
This 1951 amendment clearly distinguished prescription medications from OTC medications.
What is the Durham-Humphrey Amendment?
This act requires medications to have a National Drug Code, or NDC, identification number.
What is the Drug Listing Act?
The letters NF stand for this.
What is the National Formulary?
This reference is an encyclopedia of medications that allows pharmacy professionals to compare medications.
What is Drug Facts and Comparisons?
This resource provides medication and disease information, medication interactions, a pill identifier, and treatment guidelines.
What is Epocrates Online?
This 1962 amendment required medications to be proven effective and gave the FDA authority to require proof of efficacy.
What is the Kefauver-Harris Amendment?
This act provides incentives to develop medications for rare diseases affecting a small number of people in the United States.
What is the Orphan Drug Act?
This reference establishes standards involving official medication titles, strength, purity, and packaging.
What is the USP-NF?
This reference is used by hospital pharmacists and pharmacy and therapeutics committees when selecting cost-effective treatments.
What is AHFS-DI?
This online reference includes medication, disease, and toxicology management information as well as medication fact sheets.
What is Micromedex?
This 1970 act regulates the manufacture, distribution, prescribing, and dispensing of controlled substances.
What is the Controlled Substances Act?
This 1990 law requires medication records and an offer to counsel patients about proper medication use.
What is OBRA '90?
This FDA reference contains information about approved prescription and OTC medications and generic products.
What is the Orange Book?
This reference provides information about self-care, OTC medications, herbal remedies, homeopathic products, nutritional supplements, and home medical equipment.
What is the Handbook of Nonprescription Drugs?
This online resource provides comprehensive pharmacy information, including dosing, administration, warnings, precautions, and clinical practice guidelines.
What is Lexicomp Online?
This 2013 law established steps for identifying and tracking prescription medications as they move through the U.S. supply chain.
What is the Drug Supply Chain Security Act?
This 2005 law regulates products containing ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, or phenylpropanolamine and includes sales limits and identification requirements.
What is the Combat Methamphetamine Act?
A technician needs to determine whether a generic medication is therapeutically equivalent to a brand-name product. This is the best reference to consult.
What is the Orange Book?
A technician needs information about the stability and compatibility of an IV medication.
What is the Handbook of Injectable Drugs?
A technician needs an online resource that includes IV compatibility information along with dosing and administration information.
What is Lexicomp Online?