2021 Ohio Revised Code
Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals
Chapter 3715 | Pure Food and Drug Law
Section 3715.87 | Drug Repository Program for Donated Prescription Drugs - Definitions.
Effective: September 10, 2012
Latest Legislation: House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly
(A) As used in this section and in sections 3715.871, 3715.872, and 3715.873 of the Revised Code:
(1) "Controlled substance" has the same meaning as in section 3719.01 of the Revised Code.
(2) "Health care facility" has the same meaning as in section 1337.11 of the Revised Code.
(3) "Hospital" has the same meaning as in section 3727.01 of the Revised Code.
(4) "Nonprofit clinic" means a charitable nonprofit corporation organized and operated pursuant to Chapter 1702. of the Revised Code, or any charitable organization not organized and not operated for profit, that provides health care services to indigent and uninsured persons as defined in section 2305.234 of the Revised Code. "Nonprofit clinic" does not include a hospital as defined in section 3727.01 of the Revised Code, a facility licensed under Chapter 3721. of the Revised Code, or a facility that is operated for profit.
(5) "Prescription drug" means any drug to which the following applies:
(a) Under the "Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act," 52 Stat. 1040 (1938), 21 U.S.C.A. 301, as amended, the drug is required to bear a label containing the legend, "Caution: Federal law prohibits dispensing without prescription" or "Caution: Federal law restricts this drug to use by or on the order of a licensed veterinarian" or any similar restrictive statement, or the drug may be dispensed only upon a prescription.
(b) Under Chapter 3715. or 3719. of the Revised Code, the drug may be dispensed only upon a prescription.
(B) The state board of pharmacy shall establish a drug repository program to accept and dispense prescription drugs donated or given for the purpose of being dispensed to individuals who are residents of this state and meet eligibility standards established in rules adopted by the board under section 3715.873 of the Revised Code. Except as provided in division (C) of this section, all of the following conditions shall apply to the program:
(1) Only drugs in their original sealed and tamper-evident unit dose packaging may be accepted and dispensed;
(2) The packaging must be unopened, except that drugs packaged in single unit doses may be accepted and dispensed when the outside packaging is opened if the single unit dose packaging is undisturbed;
(3) A drug shall not be accepted or dispensed if there is reason to believe that it is adulterated as described in section 3715.63 of the Revised Code.
(C) Orally administered cancer drugs that are not controlled substances and that do not require refrigeration, freezing, or storage at a special temperature may be accepted and dispensed even if not in original sealed and tamper-evident unit dose packaging, subject to rules adopted by the board pursuant to section 3715.873 of the Revised Code.
(D) Subject to the limitations specified in divisions (B) and (C) of this section, unused drugs dispensed for purposes of the medicaid program may be accepted and dispensed under the drug repository program.
