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Certified Pharmacy Technician
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Some medicines are useful but can also be misused or cause dependence. Federal law sorts these medicines into five groups called schedules. A medicine's schedule tells you which handling rules apply, including whether a prescription can be refilled.
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Open lesson →A prescription can be used in more than one way after a prescriber writes it. The patient may come back for more of the same medicine. The pharmacy may hand over only part of the quantity now. The prescription may move to a different pharmacy. Each of these is a different event, and for controlled substances, federal law sets different limits for each one.
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Open lesson →A pharmacy has to be able to show where each controlled-substance tablet, capsule or milliliter came from and where it went. If the records can't do that, the pharmacy can't tell a counting error from theft.
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Open lesson →Some medicines can't be handed over just because a customer asks and pays. For some, the law limits how much one person can buy. For others, specific steps must happen before the medicine leaves the pharmacy, such as checking ID, writing a record, or confirming that a patient is enrolled in a safety program.
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Open lesson →Every bottle on a pharmacy shelf was made in a specific batch and reached the pharmacy through a chain of businesses. Sometimes a problem appears. A manufacturer finds a defect, a package looks wrong, or the paperwork that should come with a shipment is missing.
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Open lesson →Before you handle, return or throw away any medicine, answer three separate questions.
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