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2022 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 639 - Pharmacists and Pharmacy
NRS 639.007 - "Drug" and "medicine" defined.
Universal Citation: NV Rev Stat § 639.007 (2022)
"Drug" and "medicine" mean:
1. Articles recognized in the official United States Pharmacopoeia, the official Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States, or official National Formulary, or any supplement to any of them;
2. Articles and devices intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease in humans or other animals;
3. Articles, other than food, aspirin and effervescent saline analgesics, intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of humans or other animals;
4. Articles intended for use as a component of any article specified in subsection 1, 2 or 3; and
5. Any controlled substance.
(Added to NRS by 1967, 1651; A 1971, 2039; 1983, 1505; 1987, 1566)
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