Terms Used In Montana Code > Title 37 > Chapter 7 > Part 7 - Out-of-State Mail Service Pharmacies

• Board: means the board of pharmacy provided for in 2-15-1733. See Montana Code 37-7-101
• Compounding: means the preparation, mixing, assembling, packaging, or labeling of a drug or device based on:

  (a)a practitioner's prescription drug order;

  (b)a professional practice relationship between a practitioner, pharmacist, and patient;

  (c)research, instruction, or chemical analysis, but not for sale or dispensing; or

  (d)the preparation of drugs or devices based on routine, regularly observed prescribing patterns. See Montana Code 37-7-101

• Department: means the department of labor and industry provided for in Title 2, chapter 15, part 17. See Montana Code 37-7-101
• dispensing: means the interpretation, evaluation, and implementation of a prescription drug order, including the preparation and delivery of a drug or device to a patient or patient's agent in a suitable container appropriately labeled for administration to or use by a patient. See Montana Code 37-7-101
• Drug: means a substance:

  (a)recognized as a drug in any official compendium or supplement;

  (b)intended for use in diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in humans or animals;

  (c)other than food, intended to affect the structure or function of the body of humans or animals; and

  (d)intended for use as a component of a substance specified in subsection (16)(a), (16)(b), or (16)(c). See Montana Code 37-7-101

• 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.
• Person: includes an individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity. See Montana Code 37-7-101
• Pharmacist: means a person licensed by the state to engage in the practice of pharmacy and who may affix to the person's name the term "R. See Montana Code 37-7-101
• Pharmacy: means an established location, either physical or electronic, registered by the board where drugs or devices are dispensed with pharmaceutical care or where pharmaceutical care is provided. See Montana Code 37-7-101
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201
• Utilization plan: means a plan under which a pharmacist may use the services of a pharmacy technician in the practice of pharmacy to perform tasks that:

  (a)do not require the exercise of the pharmacist's independent professional judgment; and

  (b)are verified by the pharmacist. See Montana Code 37-7-101

• Writing: includes printing. See Montana Code 1-1-203