N.M. Admin. Code § 16.19.10.7 - DEFINITIONS
All terms defined in the Pharmacy Act or elsewhere in the Board Regulations shall have the same meanings in this regulation unless otherwise defined below:
A. "Clinic",
means any facility where one or more licensed practitioners diagnose and treat
patients, and where drugs are stored, dispensed, distributed or administered
for the diagnosis and treatment of the facility's patients; provided that this
definition shall not include the privately owned practice of any licensed
practitioner or group of licensed practitioners exempt under Section
61-11-22 of the Pharmacy
Act.
B. "Dispensing Unit", means a
container or containers of a drug entity, either prepackaged (repackaged per
Board requirements) or the manufacturer's original container(s), containing a
quantity suitable for the prescribed treatment or condition.
C. "Distribute" means delivery of a
dispensing unit (as defined in this section) by a licensed practitioner to a
patient of the clinic by means other than dispensing.
D. "Drug Storage Area", means an area
restricted to the storage, dispensing and distribution of dangerous
drugs.
E. "Medical Records", means
the medical information gathered and maintained for a clinic's patient,
including but not restricted to the patients weight, height, sex, D.O.B.,
allergies, diagnosis and treatments.
F. "Mobile Narcotic Treatment Program" means
a narcotic treatment program (NTP) operating from a motor vehicle, as defined
in this section, that serves as a mobile component (conveyance) and is
operating under the registration of the NTP, and engages in maintenance and/ or
detoxification treatment with narcotic drugs in schedules II-V, at a location
or locations remote from, but within the same State as, its registered
location. Operating a mobile NTP is a coincident activity of an existing
NTP.
G. Motor vehicle means a
vehicle propelled under its own motive power and lawfully used on public
streets, roads, or highways with more than three wheels in contact with the
ground. This term does not include a trailer.
H. "Transfer", means the direct delivery,
physically or electronically, of dangerous drug stock unopened containers,
except samples, from a clinic or the clinic's supplier to a pharmacy to be
dispensed by the pharmacy to patients of the clinic.
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