Drug Repository Program Established; Criteria and Requirements for Unused Over-the-Counter and Prescription Drugs

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  6. Drug Repository Program Established; Criteria and Requirements for Unused Over-the-Counter and Prescription Drugs

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  1. The Department of Public Health shall establish a drug repository program to accept and dispense over-the-counter and prescription drugs donated for the purpose of being dispensed to eligible patients.
  2. Drugs shall only be dispensed pursuant to the program if:
    1. For prescription drugs, they do not expire before the completion of the medication by the eligible patient based on the prescribing health care professional's directions for use and, for over-the-counter drugs, they do not expire before use by the eligible patient based on the directions for use on the manufacturer's label; and
    2. The drugs were donated in unopened tamper-evident packaging as defined by United States Pharmacopeia General Chapter 659, Packaging and Storage Requirements, including but not limited to unopened unit-dose and multiple-dose packaging.
  3. The following drugs shall not be donated to the program:
    1. Controlled substances;
    2. Drugs subject to a federal Food and Drug Administration managed risk evaluation and mitigation strategy pursuant to Section 355-1 of Title 21 of the United States Code if inventory transfer is prohibited by such strategy; or
    3. Drugs that there is reason to believe are adulterated pursuant to Code Section 26-3-7.

(Code 1981, §31-8-301, enacted by Ga. L. 2016, p. 524, § 1/HB 897.)


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