Pharmacy Law MPJE Exam: Federal Law
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What did the Federal Controlled Substances Act do? Why was it
implemented? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Legislators very concerned in the 1960s
about legal and illegal drugs being abused
They were given the opportunity to design an act/law
Created the DEA to promulgate and enforce the law
Created a closed system between: manufacturer, distributors, prescriber,
dispenser, and patient.
What did the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 do? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Prohibited the adulteration and misbranding of foods and drugs in
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,interstate commerce; DID NOT have to be proven safe or effective; did not
require the label to list ingredients, directions for use, or provide warnings
What did the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act do? (started in 1938) - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Provides for the comprehensive regulation of all drugs
introduced into interstate (and most intrastate) commerce
Under this act no new drug may be marketed and sold unless it has been
proved SAFE ONLY for its intended use and approved by the FDA
Labels must contain adequate directions for use and warnings about habit-
forming properties of certain drugs
Describe the FDCA - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The purpose of the FDCA is to protect
consumers from adulterated or misbranded foods, drugs, cosmetics, or
devices; provided that no new drug could be marketed until proven safe for
use under the conditions described on the label and approved by the FDA;
also started the labeling requirements; applies to devices as well; all drugs
before 1938 are exempt from the requirement that new drugs be proven
safe
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,If you get in trouble with the board of pharmacy can you get in trouble with
the government too? What about the a lawsuit with a patient? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Yes, you can have an administrative lawsuit, a civil lawsuit, and a
criminal lawsuit separately for the same offense
What did the Durham-Humphrey Amendment of 1951 do? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Established 2 classes of drugs; prescription and OTC
Allows refills on prescriptions and oral prescriptions
Per the Durham-Humphrey Amendment; what must be labeled on a
prescription medication - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Caution: federal law prohibits
dispensing without a Rx; they do not need adequate directions for use like
OTC (talking about the MANUFACTURERS label here; there is no take this
medication x amount of times daily on the manufacturer labeling)
What did the Kefauver-Harris Amendment of 1962 do? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Required all drugs to not only be proven safe but also EFFECTIVE
Transferred the regulation of drug advertising from the FTC to the FDA
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, The efficacy requirement made by the Kefauver-Harris Amendment
included all drugs marketed during what time period - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1938-
1962; drugs produced before 1938 were just grandfathered in and did not
have to prove their efficacy
What did the Orphan Drug Act of 1983 do? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Provided tax
and exclusive licensing incentives for manufacturers to develop agents for
the treatment of rare disease or conditions (those conditions that affect <
200,000 Americans)
What did the Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act of
1984 do? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Made generic drugs more readily available to
the public and at the same time provided incentives for manufacturers to
develop new drugs
Eliminated the need for generic to prove safety and efficacy thus allowing
new generics to get approved more easily
What did the Prescription Drug Marketing Act of 1987 do? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Established sales restrictions and recordkeeping requirements for
prescription drug samples
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What did the Federal Controlled Substances Act do? Why was it
implemented? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Legislators very concerned in the 1960s
about legal and illegal drugs being abused
They were given the opportunity to design an act/law
Created the DEA to promulgate and enforce the law
Created a closed system between: manufacturer, distributors, prescriber,
dispenser, and patient.
What did the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 do? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Prohibited the adulteration and misbranding of foods and drugs in
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,interstate commerce; DID NOT have to be proven safe or effective; did not
require the label to list ingredients, directions for use, or provide warnings
What did the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act do? (started in 1938) - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Provides for the comprehensive regulation of all drugs
introduced into interstate (and most intrastate) commerce
Under this act no new drug may be marketed and sold unless it has been
proved SAFE ONLY for its intended use and approved by the FDA
Labels must contain adequate directions for use and warnings about habit-
forming properties of certain drugs
Describe the FDCA - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The purpose of the FDCA is to protect
consumers from adulterated or misbranded foods, drugs, cosmetics, or
devices; provided that no new drug could be marketed until proven safe for
use under the conditions described on the label and approved by the FDA;
also started the labeling requirements; applies to devices as well; all drugs
before 1938 are exempt from the requirement that new drugs be proven
safe
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,If you get in trouble with the board of pharmacy can you get in trouble with
the government too? What about the a lawsuit with a patient? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Yes, you can have an administrative lawsuit, a civil lawsuit, and a
criminal lawsuit separately for the same offense
What did the Durham-Humphrey Amendment of 1951 do? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Established 2 classes of drugs; prescription and OTC
Allows refills on prescriptions and oral prescriptions
Per the Durham-Humphrey Amendment; what must be labeled on a
prescription medication - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Caution: federal law prohibits
dispensing without a Rx; they do not need adequate directions for use like
OTC (talking about the MANUFACTURERS label here; there is no take this
medication x amount of times daily on the manufacturer labeling)
What did the Kefauver-Harris Amendment of 1962 do? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Required all drugs to not only be proven safe but also EFFECTIVE
Transferred the regulation of drug advertising from the FTC to the FDA
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, The efficacy requirement made by the Kefauver-Harris Amendment
included all drugs marketed during what time period - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1938-
1962; drugs produced before 1938 were just grandfathered in and did not
have to prove their efficacy
What did the Orphan Drug Act of 1983 do? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Provided tax
and exclusive licensing incentives for manufacturers to develop agents for
the treatment of rare disease or conditions (those conditions that affect <
200,000 Americans)
What did the Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act of
1984 do? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Made generic drugs more readily available to
the public and at the same time provided incentives for manufacturers to
develop new drugs
Eliminated the need for generic to prove safety and efficacy thus allowing
new generics to get approved more easily
What did the Prescription Drug Marketing Act of 1987 do? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Established sales restrictions and recordkeeping requirements for
prescription drug samples
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