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... is consumed or used by humans and any drug, including a drug that may be provided legally only pursuant to a prescription, that is intended to be consumed or used by humans. (2) "Drug," "licensed health professional authorized to prescribe drugs," "pharmacy," "prescriber," "prescription," and "terminal distributor of dangerous drugs" have the same meanings as in section 4729.01 of the Revised Code. (3) "Ephe...

...a prescription for an overdose reversal drug, or personally furnish a supply of the drug, without having examined the individual to whom it may be administered. The physician, physician assistant, advanced practice registered nurse, or certified mental health assistant exercising this authority shall provide, to the individual receiving the prescription or supply, instructions regarding the emergency administration o...

...th professional authorized to prescribe drugs administers or personally furnishes, or where a pharmacist sells at retail, any medicinal preparation that contains in thirty milliliters, or if a solid or semisolid preparation, in thirty grams, of any of the following: (1) Not more than one hundred thirty milligrams of opium; (2) Not more than sixteen and twenty-five one hundreths milligrams of morphine or of any of i...

...tic cancer shall not make coverage of a drug that is prescribed to treat such cancer or associated conditions dependent upon a covered person demonstrating either of the following: (1) Failure to successfully respond to a different drug; (2) A history of failing to respond to a different drug or drugs. (B) Division (A) of this section applies only to uses of such drug or drugs that are consistent with either o...

... not otherwise authorized to administer drugs may administer a drug to a specified patient if all of the following conditions are met: (A) The authority to administer the drug is delegated to the person by an advanced practice registered nurse who is a clinical nurse specialist, certified nurse-midwife, or certified nurse practitioner and holds a l icense issued under section 4 723.42 of the Revised Code. (B) The d...

...3 of the Revised Code: (1) Dispense a drug pursuant to the prescription ; (2) Label a drug dispensed pursuant to the prescription without the name of the individual for whom the drug is intended if the prescription contains the words "expedited partner therapy" or the letters "EPT." (B) For each drug dispensed under this section, the pharmacist shall provide all of the following information: (1) Directions ...

...th professional authorized to prescribe drugs personally furnishes drugs to a patient pursuant to division (B) of section 4729.29 of the Revised Code, the prescriber shall ensure that the drugs are labeled and packaged in accordance with state and federal drug laws and any rules and regulations adopted pursuant to those laws. Records of purchase and disposition of all drugs personally furnished to patients shall be m...

... as a terminal distributor of dangerous drugs: (1) A licensed health professional authorized to prescribe drugs; (2) A business entity that is a corporation formed under division (B) of section 1701.03 of the Revised Code, a limited liability company formed under former Chapter 1705. of the Revised Code as that chapter existed prior to February 11, 2022, or Chapter 1706. of the Revised Code, or a professional a...

...of pharmacy establishes and maintains a drug database pursuant to section 4729.75 of the Revised Code, each manufacturer of dangerous drugs, outsourcing facility, repackager of dangerous drugs, or wholesale distributor of dangerous drugs that delivers drugs to prescribers or terminal distributors of dangerous drugs shall submit to the board the following purchase information: (1) Purchaser identification; (2) Ident...

...of pharmacy establishes and maintains a drug database pursuant to section 4729.75 of the Revised Code, the board is authorized or required to provide information from the database only as follows: (1) On receipt of a request from a designated representative of a government entity responsible for the licensure, regulation, or discipline of health care professionals with authority to prescribe, administer, or dispen...

... as a terminal distributor of dangerous drugs to the extent that the activities do not require the exercise of professional judgment: (1) Accepting new written or electronic prescription orders from a prescriber or a prescriber's agent; (2) Entering information into and retrieving information from a database or patient profile; (3) Preparing and affixing labels; (4) Stocking dangerous drugs and retrieving tho...

...ecommendations of the board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services of the district submitted under division (A)(4) of section 340.03 of the Revised Code and the priorities and plans of the department of mental health and addiction services, including the needs of residents of the district currently receiving services in state-operated hospitals, and make recommendations for needed improvements to boar...

...establish and implement a supplemental drug rebate program under which drug manufacturers may be required to provide the department of medicaid a supplemental rebate as a condition of having the drug manufacturers' drug products covered by the medicaid program without prior approval. The department may receive a supplemental rebate negotiated under the program for a drug dispensed to a medicaid recipient pursu...

...whether or not a health care service or drug is appropriate and consistent with medical or scientific evidence. (3) "Medical or scientific evidence" has the same meaning as in section 3922.01 of the Revised Code. (4) "Step therapy exemption" means an overriding of a step therapy protocol in favor of immediate coverage of a medicaid provider's selected prescription drug. (5) "Step therapy protocol" means a prot...

...nsferring to others for a consideration drugs, the dispensing of which does not require an order of a licensed veterinarian, physician, certified nurse-midwife, clinical nurse specialist, or certified nurse practitioner under federal law, are vendors. The operator of any peer-to-peer car sharing program shall be considered to be the vendor. (D)(1) "Consumer" means the person for whom the service is provided, to...

...njection, use, or administration of any drug that is prohibited under any federal law or law of this state, or any drug that is used in any manner that is not authorized under any federal law or law of this state. Whenever the commissioner of the United States food and drug administration or the secretary of the United States department of agriculture, pursuant to the "Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act," 52 Stat....

... limited to, a county board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services or a county board of developmental disabilities, unless a county board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services or a county board of developmental disabilities does not agree to the payment of those fees. Any funds or fees received by the probate court under this division shall be paid into the county treasury and credite...

...l each be elected and designated as the drug court judge of the court of common pleas of Hamilton county. Eligibility for admission of a case into the drug court shall be set forth in a local rule adopted by the court of common pleas of Hamilton county. The local rule specifying eligibility shall not permit referral to the drug court of a case that involves a felony of the first or second degree, a violation of an...

...determined that the employee is using a drug of abuse dispensed pursuant to a prescription and that the employee's use of the drug of abuse represents a potential risk of harm to passengers on any aircraft, railroad train, school or other bus, taxicab, or other type of common carrier operated by the employee; (2) The physician has determined that the employee is using a drug of abuse otherwise than pursuant to a pre...

... be used for the commission of a felony drug abuse offense. (B) No person who is the owner, lessee, or occupant, or who has custody, control, or supervision, of premises or real estate, including vacant land, shall knowingly permit the premises or real estate, including vacant land, to be used for the commission of a felony drug abuse offense by another person. (C)(1) Whoever violates this section is guilty of pe...

...(A) As used in this section, "drug paraphernalia" has the same meaning as in section 2925.14 of the Revised Code. (B) In determining if any equipment, product, or material is drug paraphernalia, a court or law enforcement officer shall consider, in addition to other relevant factors, all factors identified in division (B) of section 2925.14 of the Revised Code. (C) No person shall knowingly use, or possess with p...

...on 2923.11 of the Revised Code. (J) "Drug and alcohol use monitoring" means a program under which an offender agrees to submit to random chemical analysis of the offender's blood, breath, or urine to determine whether the offender has ingested any alcohol or other drugs. (K) "Drug treatment program" means any program under which a person undergoes assessment and treatment designed to reduce or completely elimin...

...commissioners is located to establish a drug overdose fatality review committee to review drug overdose deaths and opioid-involved deaths occurring in the county. (B) The boards of county commissioners of two or more counties may, by adopting a joint resolution passed by a majority of the members of each participating board of county commissioners, create a regional drug overdose fatality review committee to revie...

...(A) A drug overdose fatality review committee shall establish a system for collecting and maintaining information necessary for the review of drug overdose or opioid-involved deaths in the county or region. In an effort to ensure confidentiality, each committee shall do all of the following: (1) Maintain all records in a secure location; (2) Develop security measures to prevent unauthorized access to records cont...

...55 of the Revised Code. (B) "National drug code number" means the number registered for a drug pursuant to the listing system established by the United States food and drug administration under the "Drug Listing Act of 1972," 86 Stat. 559, 21 U.S.C. 360, as amended. (C) "Pharmacy school" means a school, college, university, or other educational institution that operates a pharmacy program recognized and appro...

...l may accept a donation of a dangerous drug if the donation is made in accordance with section 3715.89 of the Revised Code. (B) All of the following apply to a dangerous drug donated to a pharmacy school: (1) The dangerous drug shall be used solely for instructional purposes. (2) The dangerous drug shall not be sold or transferred for consideration of any kind. (3) In accordance with 21 C.F.R. 201.125, the ...

...As used in the Revised Code: (A) "Drug of abuse" means any controlled substance as defined in section 3719.01 of the Revised Code, any harmful intoxicant as defined in section 2925.01 of the Revised Code, and any dangerous drug as defined in section 4729.01 of the Revised Code. (B) "Person with a drug dependency" means any person who, by reason of the use of any drug of abuse, is physically, psychologically, or p...

...th professional authorized to prescribe drugs, if acting in the course of professional practice, in accordance with the laws regulating the professional's practice, and in accordance with rules adopted by the state board of pharmacy, may, except as provided in division (A)(2), (3), or (4) of this section, do the following: (a) Prescribe schedule II, III, IV, and V controlled substances; (b) Administer or personal...

...ice. (ii) If the underlying arrest is drug related, the court in its discretion may issue an order that, except as provided in division (C) of section 4510.43 of the Revised Code, for the remainder of the period of suspension the offender shall not exercise the privileges unless the vehicles the offender operates are equipped with a certified ignition interlock device. (c) The first sixty days of a suspension imp...

...th professional authorized to prescribe drugs who is acting within the prescriber's scope of professional practice; (B) Prevent a prescriber from personally furnishing the prescriber's patients with drugs, within the prescriber's scope of professional practice, that seem proper to the prescriber, as long as the drugs are furnished in accordance with section 4729.291 of the Revised Code; (C) Apply to an individual...

...sed in this section, "overdose reversal drug distributor" means either of the following: (1) A wholesale distributor of dangerous drugs; (2) A terminal distributor of dangerous drugs that supplies overdose reversal drugs to any entity under division (B)(1) of this section. (B)(1) An overdose reversal drug distributor shall prioritize the sale, distribution, and delivery of overdose reversal drugs to all of the...

...of pharmacy establishes and maintains a drug database pursuant to section 4729.75 of the Revised Code, all of the following apply: (A)(1) No person identified in divisions (A)(1) to (13), (15) to (26), or (B) of section 4729.80 of the Revised Code shall disseminate any written or electronic information the person receives from the drug database or otherwise provide another person access to the information that the...

...as a result of the violation is a major drug offender, as defined in section 2929.01 of the Revised Code, and is guilty of a specification of the type described in division (A) of section 2941.1410 of the Revised Code, the court, in lieu of the prison term authorized or required by division (E)(1) of this section and sections 2929.13 and 2929.14 of the Revised Code and in addition to any other sanction imposed for th...

...e disorder or excessive use or abuse of drugs, alcohol, or other substances that may impair ability to practice; (6) Administering drugs for purposes other than those authorized under this chapter; (7) Willfully betraying a professional confidence; (8) Making a false, fraudulent, deceptive, or misleading statement in soliciting or advertising for employment as a physician assistant; in connection with any so...

...crime involving illegal or prescription drugs, or fails to report to the board within sixty days of the individual's conviction of, plea of guilty to, or treatment in lieu of conviction involving a felony, misdemeanor of the first degree, or offense involving illegal or prescription drugs; (10) Is convicted of any violation of section 959.13 of the Revised Code; (11) Swears falsely in any affidavit required to ...

...y the department or a board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services, or any hospitals or facilities licensed or operated by the department, shall be kept confidential and shall not be disclosed by any person except: (1) If the person identified, or the person's legal guardian, if any, or if the person is a minor, the person's parent or legal guardian, consents; (2) When disclosure is provided for in ...

...ider's included opioid and co-occurring drug addiction services and recovery supports; (2) Notify an individual included on the provider's waiting list when the provider has a slot available for the individual and, if the individual does not contact the provider about the slot within a period of time specified in the rules, contact the individual to determine why the individual did not contact the provider and to a...

...controlled substance or other dangerous drug. (2) It affirmatively appears to the department that the provider is adequately staffed and equipped to operate an opioid treatment program. (3) It affirmatively appears to the department that the provider will operate an opioid treatment program in strict compliance with all laws relating to drug abuse and the rules adopted by the department. (4) Except as provid...

...tment services, other than prescription drug services, for biologically based mental illnesses; (h) Preventive health care services, including, but not limited to, voluntary family planning services, infertility services, periodic physical examinations, prenatal obstetrical care, and well-child care; (i) Routine patient care for patients enrolled in an eligible cancer clinical trial pursuant to section 3923.80 of...

...ement fund; (v) The board of pharmacy drug law enforcement fund created by division (B)(1) of section 4729.65 of the Revised Code; (vi) The medicaid fraud investigation and prosecution fund; (vii) The bureau of criminal identification and investigation asset forfeiture and cost reimbursement fund created by section 109.521 of the Revised Code; (viii) The casino control commission enforcement fund created by s...

... If a health commissioner establishes a drug overdose fatality review committee as described in division (A) of section 307.631 of the Revised Code, the commissioner shall select four members to serve on the review committee along with the commissioner. The review committee shall consist of the following: (a) The chief of police of a police department in the county or the county sheriff or a designee of the chief o...

...rmining the size of a board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services, the size of a board shall be determined in accordance with this section in both of the following circumstances: (A)(1) If the director of mental health and addiction services during the period beginning January 1, 2021, and ending December 31, 2022, grants approval to a board of county commissioners of a county with a population of...

...harmacy, any manufacturer of dangerous drugs, terminal distributor of dangerous drugs, or wholesale distributor of dangerous drugs that in good faith donates a dangerous drug under section 3715.89 of the Revised Code, and any pharmacy school that accepts a dangerous drug donation under section 3715.90 of the Revised Code, shall not, in the absence of bad faith, be subject to any of the following for matter...

...(2) A terminal distributor of dangerous drugs, in the regular course of business; (3) A person authorized to administer injections, in the regular course of the person's profession or employment; (4) A person, when the hypodermic was lawfully obtained and is kept and used for the purpose of self-administration of insulin or other drug prescribed for the treatment of disease by a licensed health professional authori...

...th professional authorized to prescribe drugs" has the same meaning as in section 4729.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Notwithstanding section 3901.71 of the Revised Code, if a health plan issuer covers a prescription drug under a health benefit plan, the health plan issuer shall also provide coverage for that drug when it is dispensed by a pharmacist to a covered person in accordance with section 4729.281 of the Revis...

...A reimbursement rate for a prescription drug that is less than the national average drug acquisition cost rate for that drug as determined by the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services, measured at the time the drug is administered or dispensed, or, if no such rate is available at that time, a reimbursement rate that is less than the wholesale acquisition cost of the drug, as defined in 42 U.S.C. 13...

...and clinical application and the use of drugs and therapeutic devices in the prevention of illness and maintenance of health; (b) Instruction in the fiscal and ethical implications of prescribing drugs and therapeutic devices; (c) Instruction in the state and federal laws that apply to the authority to prescribe; (d) Instruction that is specific to schedule II controlled substances, including instruction in all of...

... Violating any federal, state, or local drug law; any provision of this chapter or Chapter 2925., 3715., or 3719. of the Revised Code; or any rule of the board; (c) A conviction of a felony; (d) Failing to satisfy the qualifications for licensure under section 4729.53 of the Revised Code or the rules of the board or ceasing to satisfy the qualifications after the registration is granted or renewed; (e) Falsely ...

...sonally furnish to a patient samples of drugs and therapeutic devices that are included in the physician assistant's physician-delegated prescriptive authority, subject to all of the following: (1) The amount of the sample furnished shall not exceed a seventy-two-hour supply, except when the minimum available quantity of the sample is packaged in an amount that is greater than a seventy-two-hour supply, in which ca...

...gation applies to the administration of drugs, the rules adopted under this section shall provide for all of the following: (1) On-site supervision when the delegation occurs in an institution or other facility that is used primarily for the purpose of providing health care, unless the board establishes a specific exception to the on-site supervision requirement with respect to routine administration of a topical dr...