Legal Ethical Flashcards
Canadian Food and Drugs Act (year and what it regulates)
1953
-Regulates food, drugs, cosmetics, medical devices
-Drug product database (47,000 products): Info on drugs approved for use in Canada
-Prescription drugs used to be schedule F in food and drug regulations, now in prescription drug list
Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (year and what it regulates)
1996
-Framework for the control of substances that alter metal processes
-Control of certain drugs (detailed in 9 schedules)
-Distributed only with supervision and prescription from licensed practitioner
-Substances listed here are NOT on the prescription drug list
Food and drug regulations (year and purpose)
2003
Adjunct to Canadian food and drugs act (1953) To clarify terms, importing, processing
CDSA Schedules and drugs
Schedule I - Includes most dangerous drugs including opioids (heroin, morphine), cocaine, amphetamines
Schedule II - Cannabis products
Schedule III - LSD
Schedule IV - Benzos, barbiturates, can be harmful or therapeutic
Schedule VI - Precursors required to produce controlled substances
Schedule VII/VIII - Specifies amounts of cannabus
Schedule IX - Regulates devices to make tablets and capsules
Standards for scheduling of drugs depends on what factors?
International standards
Dependency potential and risk for abuse
Danger risk to public
Usefulness of drug
What are the National Drug Schedules
Schedule I - Requires prescription
Schedule II - Behind pharmacy desk. No prescription required
Schedule III - In pharmacy, but self-selection
Unscheduled - For sale at any retail outlet
What are the 3 types of drug names
Chemical (ie N-acetyl-para-aminophenol)
Generic (ie acetaminophen)
Trade (ie Tylenol)
What are some ethnocultural considerations?
Drug polymorphism (effect of clients age, sex, size, body composition, individuals absorption and metabolism)
Environmental: Diet, nutrition, ethnocultural and genetic (inherited) factors
Folk remedies: Eating mud
Home remedies: Vinegar on wounds
