Guidance on controlled substances for community pharmacists and pharmacy technicians (CS-GD-022): Glossary
Acronyms
- CDSA
- Controlled Drugs and Substances Act
- CSR
- Controlled Substances Regulations
- DIN
- Drug identification number
Terms
Important: If there is any conflict in this document with a definition in the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act or the Controlled Substances Regulations, the definition in the act/regulation prevails.
- Controlled drug
- A substance included in Schedule 2 of the Controlled Substances Regulations
- Controlled substance (for the purposes of this document only)
- A substance included in Schedules 1, 2, or 3 of the Controlled Substances Regulations
- Destroy
- To alter or denature a controlled substance to such an extent that its consumption is rendered impossible or improbable
- Drug identification number
- The identification number assigned to a drug under paragraph C.01.014.2(1)(a) of the Food and Drug Regulations
- Finished product
- A finished product that contains a controlled substance set out in Schedules 1 to 4 of the Controlled Substances Regulations, that is in a form that is intended to be administered to an individual or animal and, in the case of a finished product that does not contain a restricted drug, that has a drug identification number; or is compounded by a pharmacist or pharmacy technician in accordance with the Controlled Substances Regulations
- Health professional
- Also known as regulated health professional, an individual who is entitled under the laws of a province to practise a profession in a health care field and who is practising in that province.
- Intern
- An individual who is entitled under the laws of a province to work as an intern in a health care field, or to work under a designation that the Minister considers equivalent, and who is working as such in that province
- Licensed dealer
- The holder of a licence issued under subsection 12(1) of the Controlled Substances Regulations.
- Narcotic
- A substance set out in Schedule 1 of the Controlled Substances Regulations.
- Non-combination product containing ephedrine or pseudoephedrine
- A natural health product that contains — as its only medicinal ingredients — ephedrine or any of its salts or pseudoephedrine or any of its salts, or any combination of those ingredients.
- Order
- Any requisition for a controlled substance is considered an order. An order does not include a prescription, which is always patient-specific.
- Pharmacist
- An individual who is entitled under the laws of a province to practise pharmacy and who is practising pharmacy in that province
- Pharmacy technician
- An individual who is entitled under the laws of a province to practise as a pharmacy technician or to practise under a designation that the Minister considers equivalent and who is practising as such in that province
- Practitioner
- A person who is registered and entitled under the laws of a province to practise in that province the profession of medicine, dentistry or veterinary medicine, and includes any other person or class of persons prescribed as a practitioner (midwife, nurse practitioner, podiatrist)
- Prescription
- An authorization given by a practitioner that a stated amount of a controlled substance, other than a restricted drug, be sold or provided for the individual named or the animal identified in it
- Restricted drug
- A substance set out in Schedule 4 of the Controlled Substances Regulations
- Send
- Does not include sending by mail
- Specialized in destruction
- A licensed dealer whose licence specifies that it only deals in the destruction of controlled substances
- Targeted substance
- A substance set out in Schedule 3o f the Controlled Substances Regulations