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The Law and Prescription Drugs

The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 prohibited the manufacture of and interstate commerce in adulterated or misbranded food and drugs. The law [Pg.72]

Banbar, a worthless cure for diabetes that the old law protected Lash-Lure, an eyelash dye that blinded some women. . . numerous examples of foods deceptively packaged or labeled Radithor, a radium-containing tonic that sentenced users to a slow and painful death and the Wilhide Exhaler, which falsely promised to cure tuberculosis and other pulmonary diseases.1 [Pg.74]

The Comprehensive Drug Abuse and Control Act of 1970 classified drugs based on their potential for abuse and set criminal punishments for five different classes or schedules of drugs. [Pg.77]

Schedule I drugs were subject to the greatest level of control and most severe punishment for illegal possession and Schedule V drugs the least level of control and mildest punishment. [Pg.77]

The law focused new attention to the growing problem of abuse of prescription drugs. It gave responsibility for enforcement to the U.S. Attorney General, with help from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare on determining the appropriate classification of drugs. A new agency [Pg.77]


Abuse. We have all heard the terms substance abuse, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, cocaine abuse, and so on. In one sense, any illicit use of a substance is abuse. For example, from the legal point of view, whenever someone smokes crack (even if it is the only time), (s)he has broken the law and abused cocaine. Likewise, if you borrow a prescription sedative or pain reliever from a friend, then you have similarly abused that medication. That is an appropriate use of the term in many cases, but this is not customarily the way that mental health specialists use the term. From our perspective, substance abuse involves a pattern of repeated use over time that results in problems in one or more areas. These include compromised physical health and well-being, legal proceedings, job status, and relationships as well as overall day-to-day functioning. [Pg.178]

LefiUer, Keith B. 1981. Promotion or Information The Economics of Prescription Drug Advertising. Journal of Law and Economics 24(2) 45-74. [Pg.306]

Masson, A., and R. Steiner. 1985. Generic Substitution and Prescription Drug Prices Economic Effects of State Drug Product Selection Laws. Staff Report of the Bureau of Economics, FTC, Washington, DC, October. [Pg.308]

Durham-Humphrey Amendment (1951). Until this law, there was no requirement that any drug be labeled for sale by prescription only. The amendment defined prescription drugs as those unsafe for self-medication and which should be used only under a doctor s supervision. [Pg.89]

This legislation amended the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to improve the regulation of prescription drugs (as well as medical devices and food). The law notes that the PDUFA of 1992 successfully reduced review times and reauthorized the user fees to expedite the review process. Other provisions aimed to give some patients access to experimental drugs. Beyond that, the law made several other changes. [Pg.82]

More than most states, Maine has passed innovative and comprehensive prescription drug laws and policies. As a result, the state has received national attention. A report from the NCSL summarizes its laws to control the costs of prescription drugs ... [Pg.88]

Hubert Humphrey, Democratic senator from Minnesota from 1949 to 1964, and again from 1971 to 1978, and vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969. A pharmacist before going into politics, Humphrey cosponsored the 1951 Prescription Drug Amendment that defined the distinction between prescription drugs that required supervision by a physician and OTC drugs. The law remains a key to the system of prescription drugs today. [Pg.120]

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Democratic president of the United States from 1933 to 1945. Ranked by historians as one of the three greatest presidents, he presided over a major overhaul of U.S. law on prescription drugs with the 1938 Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Although it took several years to pass the law, Roosevelt supported the efforts of the FDA to modernize and improve the control of prescription drugs. [Pg.123]


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