Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes > Chapter 420b - Dependency-Producing Drugs

• Administer: means the direct application of a controlled substance, whether by injection, inhalation, ingestion or any other means, to the body of a patient or research subject by: (A) A practitioner, or, in the practitioner's presence, by the practitioner's authorized agent, or (B) the patient or research subject at the direction and in the presence of the practitioner, or (C) a nurse or intern under the direction and supervision of a practitioner. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Agent: means an authorized person who acts on behalf of or at the direction of a manufacturer, distributor, dispenser or prescribing practitioner, but does not include a common or contract carrier, public warehouseman, or employee of the carrier or warehouseman. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• another: may extend and be applied to communities, companies, corporations, public or private, limited liability companies, societies and associations. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Bureau: means the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, United States Department of Justice, or its successor agency. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Cannabis-type substances: include all parts of any plant, or species of the genus cannabis or any infra specific taxon thereof whether growing or not. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
• Cocaine in a free-base form: means any substance which contains cocaine, or any compound, isomer, derivative or preparation thereof, in a nonsalt form. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Controlled substance: means a drug, substance, or immediate precursor in schedules I to V, inclusive, of the Connecticut controlled substance scheduling regulations adopted pursuant to section 21a-243. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Dentist: means a person authorized by law to practice dentistry in this state. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Dispense: means to deliver a controlled substance to an ultimate user or research subject by or pursuant to the lawful order of a practitioner, including the prescribing, administering, packaging, labeling or compounding necessary to prepare the substance for the delivery. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Dispenser: means a practitioner who dispenses. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Distribute: means to deliver other than by administering or dispensing a controlled substance. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Distributor: means a person who distributes and includes a wholesaler who is a person supplying or distributing controlled drugs which the person personally has not produced or prepared to hospitals, clinics, practitioners, pharmacies, other wholesalers, manufacturers and federal, state and municipal agencies. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Drug: means (A) substances recognized as drugs in the official United States Pharmacopoeia, official Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States, or official National Formulary, or any supplement to any of them. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Drug paraphernalia: means equipment, products and materials of any kind that are used, intended for use or designed for use in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, preparing, testing, analyzing, packaging, repackaging, storing, containing or concealing, or ingesting, inhaling or otherwise introducing into the human body, any controlled substance contrary to the provisions of this chapter, including, but not limited to: (i) Kits intended for use or designed for use in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing or harvesting of any species of plant that is a controlled substance or from which a controlled substance can be derived. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Drug-dependent person: means a person who has a psychoactive substance dependence on drugs as that condition is defined in the most recent edition of the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" of the American Psychiatric Association. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• 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.
• Factory: means any place used for the manufacturing, mixing, compounding, refining, processing, packaging, distributing, storing, keeping, holding, administering or assembling illegal substances contrary to the provisions of this chapter, or any building, rooms or location which contains equipment or paraphernalia used for this purpose. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Federal food and drug laws: means the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, as amended, Title 21 USC 301 et seq. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Immediate precursor: means a substance which the Commissioner of Consumer Protection has found to be, and by regulation designates as being, the principal compound commonly used or produced primarily for use, and which is an immediate chemical intermediary used or likely to be used, in the manufacture of a controlled substance, the control of which is necessary to prevent, curtail or limit manufacture. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
• Intern: means a person who holds a degree of doctor of medicine or doctor of dental surgery or medicine and whose period of service has been recorded with the Department of Public Health and who has been accepted and is participating in training by a hospital or institution in this state. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Laboratory: means a laboratory approved by the Department of Consumer Protection as proper to be entrusted with the custody of controlled substances and the use of controlled substances for scientific and medical purposes and for purposes of instruction, research or analysis. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Manufacture: means the production, preparation, cultivation, growing, propagation, compounding, conversion or processing of a controlled substance, either directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of natural origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis, and includes any packaging or repackaging of the substance or labeling or relabeling of its container, except that this term does not include the preparation or compounding of a controlled substance by an individual for the individual's own use or the preparation, compounding, packaging or labeling of a controlled substance: (A) By a practitioner as an incident to the practitioner administering or dispensing of a controlled substance in the course of such practitioner's professional practice, or (B) by a practitioner, or by the practitioner's authorized agent under such practitioner's supervision, for the purpose of, or as an incident to, research, teaching or chemical analysis and not for sale. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Marijuana: means all parts of any plant, or species of the genus cannabis or any infra specific taxon thereof, whether growing or not. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Narcotic substance: means any of the following, whether produced directly or indirectly by extraction from a substance of vegetable origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis: (A) Morphine-type: (i) Opium or opiate, or any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation of opium or opiate which is similar to any such substance in chemical structure or which is similar to any such substance in physiological effect and which shows a like potential for abuse, which is a controlled substance under this chapter unless modified. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
• Nurse: means a person performing nursing as defined in section 20-87a. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Official written order: means an order for controlled substances written on a form provided by the bureau for that purpose under the federal Controlled Substances Act. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Opiate: means any substance having an addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine or being capable of conversion into a drug having addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Opium poppy: means the plant of the species papaver somniferum l. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Other stimulant and depressant drugs: means controlled substances other than amphetamine-type, barbiturate-type, cannabis-type, cocaine-type, hallucinogenics and morphine-type which are found to exert a stimulant and depressant effect upon the higher functions of the central nervous system and which are found to have a potential for abuse and are controlled substances under this chapter. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: includes any corporation, limited liability company, association or partnership, or one or more individuals, government or governmental subdivisions or agency, business trust, estate, trust, or any other legal entity. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Pharmacist: means a person authorized by law to practice pharmacy pursuant to section 20-590, 20-591, 20-592 or 20-593. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Pharmacy: means an establishment licensed pursuant to section 20-594. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Physician: means a person authorized by law to practice medicine in this state pursuant to section 20-9. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• Podiatrist: means a person authorized by law to practice podiatry in this state. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Poppy straw: means all parts, except the seeds, of the opium poppy, after mowing. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Practitioner: means : (A) A physician, dentist, veterinarian, podiatrist, scientific investigator or other person licensed, registered or otherwise permitted to distribute, dispense, conduct research with respect to or to administer a controlled substance in the course of professional practice or research in this state. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Prescribe: means order or designate a remedy or any preparation containing controlled substances. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Prescription: means a written, oral or electronic order for any controlled substance or preparation from a licensed practitioner to a pharmacist for a patient. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Pro se: A Latin term meaning "on one's own behalf"; in courts, it refers to persons who present their own cases without lawyers.
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Production: includes the manufacture, planting, cultivation, growing or harvesting of a controlled substance. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Reasonable times: means the time or times any office, care-giving institution, pharmacy, clinic, wholesaler, manufacturer, laboratory, warehouse, establishment, store or place of business, vehicle or other place is open for the normal affairs or business or the practice activities usually conducted by the registrant. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Registrant: means any person licensed by this state and assigned a current federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drug Registry Number as provided under the federal Controlled Substances Act. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Registry number: means the alphabetical or numerical designation of identification assigned to a person by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, or other federal agency, which is commonly known as the federal registry number. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Sale: is a ny form of delivery which includes barter, exchange or gift, or offer therefor, and each such transaction made by any person whether as principal, proprietor, agent, servant or employee. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes any state, district, commonwealth, territory or insular possession thereof, and any area subject to the legal authority of the United States of America. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• THC: means tetrahydrocannabinol, including, but not limited to, delta-7, delta-8-tetrahydrocannabinol, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol and delta-10-tetrahydrocannabinol, and any material, compound, mixture or preparation which contain their salts, isomers and salts of isomers, whenever the existence of such salts, isomers and salts of isomers is possible within the specific chemical designation, regardless of the source, except: (A) Dronabinol substituted in sesame oil and encapsulated in a soft gelatin capsule in a federal Food and Drug Administration or successor agency approved product, or (B) any tetrahydrocannabinol product that has been approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration or successor agency to have a medical use and reclassified in any schedule of controlled substances or unscheduled by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration or successor agency. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Ultimate user: means a person who lawfully possesses a controlled substance for the person's own use or for the use of a member of such person's household or for administering to an animal owned by such person or by a member of such person's household. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Unit dose drug distribution system: means a drug distribution system used in a hospital or chronic and convalescent nursing home in which drugs are supplied in individually labeled unit of use packages, each patient's supply of drugs is exchanged between the hospital pharmacy and the drug administration area or, in the case of a chronic and convalescent nursing home between a pharmacy and the drug administration area, at least once each twenty-four hours and each patient's medication supply for this period is stored within a patient-specific container, all of which is conducted under the direction of a pharmacist licensed in Connecticut and, in the case of a hospital, directly involved in the provision and supervision of pharmaceutical services at such hospital at least thirty-five hours each week. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Veterinarian: means a person authorized by law to practice veterinary medicine in this state. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240
• Wholesaler: means a distributor or a person who supplies controlled substances that the person personally has not produced or prepared to registrants. See Connecticut General Statutes 21a-240