Arkansas Administrative Code › Agency 070 - Board of Pharmacy › Rule 070.00.22-002 - Rule 7 - Drug Products/Prescriptions

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, June, 2024
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GENERAL RULES REGARDING
		  DRUGS/PRESCRIPTIONS
Definitions:
"Prescription" means an order for medicine or medicines usually
			 written as a formula by a physician, optometrist, dentist, veterinarian, or
			 other licensed medicinal practitioner. It contains the names and quantities of
			 the desired substance, with instructions to the pharmacist for its preparation
			 and to the patient for the use of the medicine at a particular time and may
			 authorize the pharmacist to substitute a therapeutically equivalent drug that
			 is at an equal or lower cost to the patient and communicate that authorization
			 by any generally accepted means of communication of a prescription from a
			 prescriber to a pharmacist.
"Prescription drug order" means a lawful order of a practitioner
			 for a drug or device for a specific patient that is communicated to a
			 pharmacist.
"Therapeutic class" means a group of similar drug products that
			 have the same or similar mechanisms of action and are used to treat a specific
			 condition;
"Therapeutically equivalent" means drug products from the same
			 therapeutic class that if administered in appropriate amounts will provide the
			 same therapeutic effect, identical in duration and intensity
"Written prescription" means a prescription that is presented to
			 an apothecary, pharmacy or pharmacist in compliance with federal law and
			 regulations, including a written, oral, faxed, or electronic prescription.
			 (5/31/2014, Amended 11/30/2014, and 5/10/2022)
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- Facsimile (Fax)
		  Prescription Drug Order
A prescription drug order which is transmitted by an electronic
			 device which sends an exact copy image to the receiver (pharmacy) over
			 telephone lines.
(a) Faxing Schedule
		  II prescriptions
(1) Faxing a Schedule II
		  prescription for a home infusion, or intravenous pain therapy patient or both -
		  a prescription, written for a Schedule II narcotic substance to be compounded
		  for direct administration to a home infusion patient by parenteral,
		  intravenous, intramuscular, subcutaneous or intraspinal infusion, may be
		  transmitted directly from the prescribing practitioner, by the practitioner or
		  the practitioner's agent, to the pharmacy by facsimile. The facsimile serves as
		  the original written prescription. This exception does not apply to oral dose
		  medications. (Also see rule 07-04-0001)
(2) Faxing a Schedule II prescription for a
		  long-term-care patient - a prescription written for a Schedule II substance,
		  for a resident of a long-term-care facility may be transmitted directly from
		  the prescribing individual practitioner, or the practitioner's agent, to the
		  provider pharmacy by facsimile. The facsimile serves as the original written
		  prescription. (See also rule 07-04-0001)
(3) A prescription written for a Schedule II
		  substance, for a home hospice patient may be transmitted by the practitioner or
		  the practitioner's agent to the dispensing pharmacy by facsimile. It must be
		  noted on the prescription that this is a hospice patient. The facsimile serves
		  as the original written prescription. (see rule 07-04-0001)