SECTION 535:15-3-13. Pharmacist's responsibility in a pharmacy

(a)   Access to drugs. Only a pharmacist shall be responsible for control and distribution of all drugs.

(1)   Only the pharmacist shall be permitted to unlock the pharmacy area or any additional storage areas for dangerous drugs, except in extreme emergency.

(2)   An extreme emergency shall be in case of fire, water leak, electrical failure, public disaster or other catastrophe whereby the public is better served by overlooking the safety/security restrictions on drugs.

(3)   Prescription medications shall not be left outside the prescription area when the pharmacist is not in attendance.

(b)   Professional judgement. A pharmacist is required to exercise sound professional judgement with respect to the legitimacy of a prescription. The law does not require a pharmacist to dispense a prescription if the pharmacist doubts its origin or if he believes that the prescription may not have been issued for a legitimate medical purpose.

(c)   Legitimate purpose. The pharmacy and pharmacist shall ensure that the prescription drug or medication order, regardless of the means of transmission, has been issued for a legitimate medical purpose by an authorized prescriber acting in the usual course of the prescriber's professional practice.

(d)   Valid patient prescriber relationship. The pharmacy and pharmacist shall not dispense a prescription drug if the pharmacist knows or should have known that the prescription was issued without a valid preexisting patient-prescriber relationship.

(e)   Valid prescription drugs. Only those prescription drugs legal to sell in the United

States shall be dispensed. (e.g. FDA approved prescription drugs, or legally compounded prescription drugs, or drugs in a drug-testing protocol, or other legal prescription drugs.)

[Source: Added at 12 Ok Reg 2593, eff 6-26-95; Amended at 22 Ok Reg 2172, eff 7-1-05; Amended at 26 Ok Reg 2274, eff 7-1-09; Amended at 32 Ok Reg 1229, eff 8-27-15]