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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 1906 Federal Food and drugs act | stop the sale of inaccurately labeled drugs. |
| 1912 International Opium Convention | International meetings were being held to curb the rise in controlled substances trafficking. This was one of these meetings. led to 1914 act. |
| 1914 Harrison Narcotics Act | required practitioner registration, documentation regarding prescriptions and dispensing. |
| 1938 Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act | This came into effect because of fatal poisoning from liquid sulfanilamide, it required new drugs to be shown to be safe before marketing. |
| 1951 Durham-Humphrey Amendment | law defines what drugs require a prescription by licensed practitioner and requires them to include this legend on the label: caution: federal law prohibits dispensing without a prescription or more recent (RX ONLY) |
| 1962 Defauver-Harris Amendments | game FDA authority to approve before a drug could be available for commercial use. |
| 1970 Poison Prevention Packaging Act | requires child proof packaging on all controlled and most prescription drugs dispensed by pharmacies. Non-child proof containers may only be used if the prescriber or patient request one |
| 1970 Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act | further classified drugs according to their potential for causing abuse. Also regulating manufacturing and distribution of drugs considered capable of causing dependence |
| 1972 Drug Listing Act | - Authorized the FDA to compile a list of all drugs for sale in the US - Assigned a unique ID to all drugs called National Drug Code (NDC) |
| 1983 Orphan Drug Act | Provides incentives to promote research, approval, and marketing of drugs needed for the treatment of rare diseases. |
| 1987 Prescription Drug Marketing Act | Restricts Distribution of prescription drugs to legitimate commercial channels & requires drug wholesalers to be licensed by the states. |
| Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 | requires that pharmacists complete a DUR (drug use review) and counsel patients |
| dietary Supplement Health and Education Act | Act from 1994 that defines dietary supplements and limits the role of the FDA in regulating them |
| Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 | HIPPA: created to protect and ensure the confidentiality and privacy of patients' health information. It also provides for a patient to review and transfer their medical records |
| 2000 Drug Addiction Treatment Act | allowed qualified physicians to dispense or prescribe specially approved schedule III, IV, and V narcotics for the treatment of opioid addiction in medical treatment settings, rather than limiting it to specialized drug treatment clinics |
| 2003 medicare Modernization Act | Medicare Part D (MMA) Provides financial assistance to seniors to purchase needed prescription medications |
| 2005 Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act | must show ID when you purchase any product that can make methamphetamine. |
| Dietary Supplement and Nonprescription Drug consumer Protection Act | law that requires companies that market herbal and dietary supplements to include their address and phone number on the product labels so consumers can report adverse events |
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