(a) Access to drugs. Only a pharmacist shall be responsible for control and distribution of all drugs.
- (1) Only the pharmacist shall be permitted to unlock the pharmacy area or any additional storage areas for dangerous drugs, except in extreme emergency.
- (2) An extreme emergency shall be in case of fire, water leak, electrical failure, public disaster or other catastrophe whereby the public is better served by overlooking the safety/security restrictions on drugs.
- (3) Prescription medications shall not be left outside the prescription area when the pharmacist is not in attendance.
- (b) Professional judgement. A pharmacist is required to exercise sound professional judgement with respect to the legitimacy of a prescription. The law does not require a pharmacist to dispense a prescription if the pharmacist doubts its origin or if he believes that the prescription may not have been issued for a legitimate medical purpose.
- (c) Legitimate purpose. The pharmacy and pharmacist shall ensure that the prescription drug or medication order, regardless of the means of transmission, has been issued for a legitimate medical purpose by an authorized prescriber acting in the usual course of the prescriber's professional practice. The pharmacist maintains the right not to fill the valid prescription.
- (d) Valid patient prescriber relationship. The pharmacy and pharmacist shall not dispense a prescription drug if the pharmacist knows or should have known that the prescription was issued without a valid preexisting patient-prescriber relationship.
- (e) Valid prescription drugs. Only those prescription drugs legal to sell in the United States shall be dispensed. (e.g. FDA approved prescription drugs, or legally compounded prescription drugs, or drugs in a drug-testing protocol, or other legal prescription drugs.)
Added at 12 Ok Reg 2593, eff 6-26-95
Amended at 22 Ok Reg 2172, eff 7-1-05
Amended at 26 Ok Reg 2274, eff 7-1-09
Amended at 32 Ok Reg 1229, eff 8-27-15
Amended at 39 Ok Reg 2057, eff 9-11-22