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(c) Improve methods for preventing, producing, understanding
and dealing with the misuse and abuse of controlled dangerous sub-
stances; and,

(3) Enter into contracts with public agencies, institutions of
higher education, and private organizations or individuals for the
purpose of conducting research, demonstrations, or special projects
which bear directly on misuse and abuse of controlled dangerous
substances.

(c) The Authority may enter into contracts for educational and
research activities.

300. Prescription drugs:

(a)  "Prescription drugs" shall mean and include any drug in-
tended for use by man which, because of its toxicity or other poten-
tiality for harmful effect, or the method of its use, or the collateral
measures necessary for its use, is designated by the Department as
not safe for use except under the supervision of a practitioner
licensed by law to administer such drugs. Provided that this term
shall not mean any controlled dangerous substance as defined in
this subheading.

(b)  Dispensed only on prescription: Any drug which bears a cau-
tionary label warning against dispensing without a prescription
under Federal law shall be dispensed only:

(i) Upon the written prescription of a practitioner licensed by
law to administer such drugs, or

(ii) Upon the oral prescription of such practitioner, which shall
be reduced to writing and filed by the pharmacist, or

(iii) By refilling any such written or oral prescription if such
refilling is authorized by the prescriber, either in the original pre-
scription or by oral direction. Such authorization must be reduced
to writing and filed by the pharmacist.

(c)  Label required: Any prescription drug dispensed by filling or
refilling a written or oral prescription of a practitioner licensed
by law to administer such drugs shall in addition to any require-
ments of the Department or Federal law bear a label containing
the name and address of the dispenser, the serial number and date
of the prescription, the name of the prescriber, and, if stated in
the prescription, the name and address of the patient, and the direc-
tions for use as contained in the written or oral prescription.

(d)  Exempt sales: The provisions of this subheading shall not
apply to sales of dangerous drugs made to registered practitioners
of pharmacy, medicine, dentistry, or veterinary medicine, or to sales
made by any manufacturer, wholesale druggist, or licensed phar-
macist to another manufacturer, wholesale druggist, or licensed
pharmacist or to a hospital or institution operating a dispensary
in which a practitioner licensed by law to administer prescription
drugs is in charge, providing records of such sales are maintained,
and available for inspection, showing date of sale, name and address
of purchaser, and quantity purchased.

(e)  Applicability of subheading advertising drugs: