"Drug" and "medicine" defined.

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"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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