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Prescriptive authority
- up to the states
- MD, DO, DVM, Dentist, podiatrist, APN and PAC can prescribe
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Prescribing to self
prescribers can prescribe non-controlled subsances for themselves and family members
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Three methods of switching Rx to OTC
- SNDA
- petition
- adding or amending OTC drug monograph (affects all drugs in the class)
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Emergency contraception
must be 17 and older
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Products contain same active ingredients and are identical in strength and dosage form
pharmaceutical equivalents
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Bioequivalent pharmaceutical equivalents
presumed to be therapeutically equivalent
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NTI drugs
- narrow therapeutic index
- less than 2 fold difference between median lethal dose and median effective dose or min toxic and min effective dose
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Poison prevention packaging act
- protect children from accidental poisoning
- administered by consumer product safety commission
- standards for child resistant containers
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Exemptions to poison prevention pkg act
- pharmacies
- mfgs
- commonly dispensed drugs
- prescriber requests
- patient requests
- institutionalized pt
- certain emergency drugs
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