Controlled Substances and Pain Management: Regulatory Oversight, Formularies, and Cost Decisions

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 310-316

  Pisano, Douglas J ^a  

^a Massachusetts College of Pharmacy   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NARCOTIC AGENT;

AGED; CASE REPORT; DRUG CONTROL; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; PAIN; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

AGED; DRUG AND NARCOTIC CONTROL; FORMULARIES; HUMANS; MALE; NARCOTICS; PAIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030326137     PISSN: 10731105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-720X.1996.tb01872.x     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. 21 U.S.C. §§ 801 et seq. (1970).
2. Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, Pub. L. No. 91-513, 84 Stat. 1242 (1970).
3. J.L. Fink, K.W. Marquardt, and L.M. Simonsmeir, Pharmacy Law Digest (St. Louis: Facts and Comparisons, 26th ed., Nov. 1995): at CS-1.
4. Id. at CS-2.
5. Mass. Gen. L. ch. 94c, § 1 (1984).
6. Fink, Marquardt, and Simonsmeir, supra note 3, at CS-2.
7. 21 C.F.R. § 1301.21 (1992).
8. Id. at §§ 1305 et seq.
9. Mass. Gen. L. ch. 94c, § 23(b).
10. Id. at § 23(b)(d). Massachusetts law limits the filling of prescriptions for Schedule II drugs for no more than a thirty-day supply. However, dextroamphetamine and methylphenidate are exceptions and are fillable in Massachusetts for up to a sixty-day supply on any single filling. Id. at § 23(d).
11. Id. at § 23(b)(d). Massachusetts law limits the filling of prescriptions for Schedule II drugs for no more than a thirty-day supply. However, dextroamphetamine and methylphenidate are exceptions and are fillable in Massachusetts for up to a sixty-day supply on any single filling. Id. at § 23(d).
12. Id. at § 2(a).
13. Fink, Marquardt, and Simonsmeir, supra note 3, at CS-4.
14. 21 C.F.R. § 1306.21.
15. W. at § 1306.11.
16. Id. at § 1306.13.
17. Id. at § 1306.11(d)
18. 21 C.F.R. § 1306.11(e)(f) (1994).
19. 21 C.F.R. § 1306.22 (1992).
20. Id. at § 1306.21.
21. Id. at § 1306.04.
22. United States Pharmacopea, USP/Dispensing Information (Alexandria: United States Pharmacopea, Vol. III, 13th ed., 1993): at v.
23. Id. at I/7.
24. Id. at I/9.
25. Id. at I/10.
26. Id. at I/12.
27. Mass. Regs. Code tit. 105 § 720.050(b) (1994).
28. National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, Survey of Pharmacy Law (Park Ridge: National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, June 1995): at 50.
29. J.L. Bootman, R.J. Townsend, and W. McGhan, Principles of Pharmacoeconomics (Cincinnati: Harvey Whitney Books, 1991): at 4 (defining pharmacoeconomics as "the description and analysis of the costs of drug therapy to healthcare systems and society").
30. Id. at 5.
31. Id. at 6.
32. Id. at 6-7.
33. Id. at 78-79.
34. A fentanyl patch is a transdermal patch containing the Schedule II drug fentanyl, which is applied to the skin and used in pain management.