Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 32 > Chapter 18 > Article 3 - Regulation

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Administer: means directly applying a controlled substance, prescription-only drug, dangerous drug or narcotic drug, whether by injection, inhalation, ingestion or any other means, to the body of a patient or research subject by a practitioner or by the practitioner's authorized agent or the patient or research subject at the direction of the practitioner. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Advertisement: means all representations that are disseminated in any manner or by any means other than by labeling for the purpose of inducing, or that are likely to induce, directly or indirectly, the purchase of drugs, devices, poisons or hazardous substances. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• board of pharmacy: means the Arizona state board of pharmacy. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Color additive: means a material that either:

  (a) Is any dye, pigment or other substance that is made by a process of synthesis or similar artifice or that is extracted, isolated or otherwise derived, with or without intermediate or final change of identity, from any vegetable, animal, mineral or other source. See Arizona Laws 32-1901

• Compounding: means preparing, mixing, assembling, packaging or labeling a drug by a pharmacist or an intern or pharmacy technician under the pharmacist's supervision, for the purpose of dispensing to a patient based on a valid prescription order. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Controlled substance: means a drug, substance or immediate precursor that is identified, defined or listed in Title 36, Chapter 27, Article 2 or the rules adopted pursuant to Title 36, Chapter 27, article 2. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Corrosive: means any substance that when it comes in contact with living tissue will cause destruction of the tissue by chemical action. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Counterfeit drug: means a drug that, or the container or labeling of which, without authorization, bears the trademark, trade name or other identifying mark, imprint, number or device, or any likeness of these, of a manufacturer, distributor or dispenser other than the person that in fact manufactured, distributed or dispensed that drug. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Day: means a business day. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Direct supervision of a pharmacist: means that the pharmacist is present. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Dispense: means to deliver to an ultimate user or research subject by or pursuant to the lawful order of a practitioner, including prescribing, administering, packaging, labeling or compounding as necessary to prepare for that delivery. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Dispenser: means a practitioner who dispenses. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Distribute: means to deliver, other than by administering or dispensing. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Distributor: means a person who distributes. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Drug: means :

  (a) Articles that are recognized, or for which standards or specifications are prescribed, in the official compendium. See Arizona Laws 32-1901

• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Federal act: means the federal laws and regulations that pertain to drugs, devices, poisons and hazardous substances and that are official at the time any drug, device, poison or hazardous substance is affected by this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Good manufacturing practice: means a system for ensuring that products are consistently produced and controlled according to quality standards and covering all aspects of design, monitoring and control of manufacturing processes and facilities to ensure that products do not pose any risk to the consumer or public. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• hazardous substance: includes any of the following if intended and suitable for household use or use by children:

  (a) Any substance that, according to standard works on medicine, pharmacology, pharmacognosy or toxicology, if applied to, introduced into or developed within the body in relatively small quantities by its inherent action uniformly produces serious bodily injury, disease or death. See Arizona Laws 32-1901

• Highly toxic: means any substance that falls within any of the following categories:

  (a) Produces death within fourteen days in half or more than half of a group of ten or more laboratory white rats each weighing between two hundred and three hundred grams, at a single dose of fifty milligrams or less per kilogram of body weight, when orally administered. See Arizona Laws 32-1901

• Hospital: means any institution for the care and treatment of the sick and injured that is approved and licensed as a hospital by the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Intern: means a pharmacy intern. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Label: means a display of written, printed or graphic matter on the immediate container of any article that, unless easily legible through the outside wrapper or container, also appears on the outside wrapper or container of the article's retail package. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Labeling: means all labels and other written, printed or graphic matter that either:

  (a) Is on any article or any of its containers or wrappers. See Arizona Laws 32-1901

• Medical practitioner: means any medical doctor, doctor of osteopathic medicine, dentist, podiatrist, veterinarian or other person who is licensed and authorized by law to use and prescribe drugs and devices to treat sick and injured human beings or animals or to diagnose or prevent sickness in human beings or animals in this state or any state, territory or district of the United States. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Medication order: means a written or verbal order from a medical practitioner or that person's authorized agent to administer a drug or device. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Minor: means a person under eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Notice: means personal service or the mailing of a copy of the notice by certified mail and email addressed either to the person at the person's latest address of record in the board office or to the person and the person's attorney using the most recent information provided to the board in the board's licensing database. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Official compendium: means the latest revision of the United States pharmacopeia and the national formulary or any current supplement. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Package: means a receptacle that is defined or described in the United States pharmacopeia and the national formulary as adopted by the board. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Packaging: means the act or process of placing a drug item or device in a container for the purpose or intent of dispensing or distributing the item or device to another. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation and association, and their duly authorized agents. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Pharmacist: means an individual who is currently licensed by the board to practice the profession of pharmacy in this state. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Pharmacist in charge: means the pharmacist who is responsible to the board for a licensed establishment's compliance with the laws and administrative rules of this state and of the federal government pertaining to the practice of pharmacy, the manufacturing of drugs and the distribution of drugs and devices. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Pharmacy: means :

  (a) Any place where drugs, devices, poisons or related hazardous substances are offered for sale at retail or where prescription orders are dispensed by a licensed pharmacist. See Arizona Laws 32-1901

• Pharmacy technician: means a person who is licensed pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Practitioner: means any physician, dentist, veterinarian, scientific investigator or other person who is licensed, registered or otherwise permitted to distribute, dispense, conduct research with respect to or administer a controlled substance in the course of professional practice or research in this state, or any pharmacy, hospital or other institution that is licensed, registered or otherwise permitted to distribute, dispense, conduct research with respect to or administer a controlled substance in the course of professional practice or research in this state. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Prescription: means either a prescription order or a prescription medication. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Prescription medication: means any drug, including label and container according to context, that is dispensed pursuant to a prescription order. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Prescription order: means any of the following:

  (a) An order to a pharmacist for drugs or devices that is issued and signed by a duly licensed medical practitioner in the authorized course of the practitioner's professional practice. See Arizona Laws 32-1901

• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Remote dispensing site pharmacy: means a pharmacy where a pharmacy technician or pharmacy intern prepares, compounds or dispenses prescription medications under remote supervision by a pharmacist. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Remote supervision by a pharmacist: means that a pharmacist directs and controls the actions of pharmacy technicians and pharmacy interns through the use of audio and visual technology. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Symbol: means the characteristic symbols that have historically identified pharmacy, including show globes and mortar and pestle, and the sign "Rx". See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• unprofessional conduct: means the following, whether occurring in this state or elsewhere:

  1. See Arizona Laws 32-1901.01

• Wilfully: means , with respect to conduct or to a circumstance described by a statute defining an offense, that a person is aware or believes that the person's conduct is of that nature or that the circumstance exists. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215