Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 46 - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL STANDARDS › Part LIII - Pharmacists › Chapter 29 - Prescription Monitoring Program › Subchapter A - General Operations › Section LIII-2901 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. As used in this
				  Chapter, the following terms shall have the meaning ascribed to them unless the
				  context clearly indicates otherwise.
Administer
or
Administration
- the direct application of a drug to the body
					 of a patient by injection, inhalation, ingestion, or any other means.
Advisory Council
- the entity established
					 in
					 R.S.
					 40:1005.
Board
- the Louisiana Board of
					 Pharmacy.
Controlled Substance
- any substance or
					 drug defined, enumerated, or included in federal or state statute or rules,
					  21 CFR
					 1308.11-15  or
					 R.S.
					 40:964, or any substance which may hereafter
					 be designated as a controlled substance by amendment or supplementation of such
					 regulations or statute.
Controlled substance
shall not include
					 distilled spirits, wine, malt beverages, or tobacco.
Delegate
-a person authorized by a
					 prescriber or dispenser who is also an authorized user as described in
					 Section
					 2917 of this Chapter to
					 access and retrieve program data for the purpose of assisting the prescriber or
					 dispenser, and for whose actions the authorizing prescriber or dispenser
					 retains accountability.
Dispense
or
Dispensing
-
					 the interpretation, evaluation, and implementation of a prescription drug
					 order, including the preparation and delivery of a drug or device to a patient
					 or patient's agent in a suitable container appropriately labeled for subsequent
					 administration to, or use by, a patient.
Dispenser
-a person authorized by this
					 state to dispense or distribute to the ultimate user any controlled substance
					 or drug monitored by the program, but shall not include any of the
					 following:
a. a pharmacy permitted by
				  the board as a hospital pharmacy that dispenses or distributes any controlled
				  substance or drug monitored by the program for the purposes of inpatient health
				  care;
b. a practitioner who
				  dispenses or distributes no more than a single 48 hour supply of such
				  controlled substance or drug to a patient prior to, or subsequent to,
				  performing an actual procedure on that patient;
c. practitioner or other authorized person
				  who administers such controlled substance or drug upon the lawful order of a
				  practitioner;
d. a wholesale
				  distributor of such controlled substance or drug that is credentialed by the
				  Louisiana Board of Drug and Device Distributors.
Distribute
or
Distribution
- the delivery of a drug or device other than by
					 administering or dispensing.
Drug
- any of the following:
a. any substance recognized as a drug in the
				  official compendium, or supplement thereto, designated by the board for use in
				  the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in humans
				  or animals;
b. any substance
				  intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention
				  of disease in humans or other animals;
c. any substance other than food intended to
				  affect the structure or any function of the body of humans or other
				  animals.
Drugs of Concern
-drugs other than
					 controlled substances as defined by rule whose use requires tracking for public
					 health purposes or which demonstrate a potential for abuse, including any
					 material, compound, mixture, or preparation containing any quantity of the
					 following substances, including its salts, esters, ethers, isomers, and salts
					 of isomers [whenever the existence of such salts, esters, ethers, isomers, and
					 salts of isomers is possible within the specific chemical designation]:
a. butalbital.
b. promethazine when present in oral liquid
				  formulation.
c.
				  gabapentin.
Patient
- the person or animal who is the
					 ultimate user of a controlled substance or drug monitored by the program for
					 whom a prescription is issued and for whom a controlled substance or drug is
					 dispensed.
Prescriber
- a licensed health care
					 professional with prescriptive authority.
Prescription Monitoring Information
- data
					 submitted to and maintained by the prescription monitoring program.
Prescription Monitoring Program
or
PMP
- the program established in
					 R.S.
					 40:1004.
Procedure
- any dental or medical practice
					 or process described in the current year's version of the American Dental
					 Association's
Current Dental Terminology
or the American
					 Medical Association's
Code of Procedural
					 Terminology
.