DEA Compliance Consultant, Veterinary Dea License

 Physicians and pharmacists should join hands with the authorities and do their best to identify, prevent and control misuse of controlled substances. They should also abide by the governing regulations. The controlled substances are controlled for good reason – they have a potentially high risk of leading to addiction, overdose complications and even death. This is why the federal and state authorities have instituted a string of laws for the scheduled drugs. To start with, DEA controlled substance licenses are mandatory for issuing these drugs. This subjects the licensed medical professionals to varied rules and regulations to ensure the utmost safe and secure use at all times. Additionally, the DEA, CDC and other agencies publish guidelines on a regular basis, institute prescription drug monitoring programs and launch other initiatives to prevent and identify prescription drug misuse as far as possible. The onus is also on the clinicians and pharmacists to prevent and control non-

The controlled substances not only have to be stored, handled and dispensed carefully, but the stipulations extend to their disposal as well. The DEA has established collection sites and events for the same. What does a pharmacy, hospital or medical practitioner do with controlled substances that are unused, out-of-date, damaged or otherwise unusable or unwanted for some reason? Disposing the Schedule I to V drugs is not as easy as flushing them down the toilet. In fact, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) does not permit the registered entities to even pour such medications down the drain or dispose them in a landfill by mixing with coffee grounds or kitty litter. By law, DEA veterinary and regular registrants can only dispose of controlled substances by destruction, return, recall, sale or through the manufacturing process. The destruction has to be in a non-retrievable manner – permanently and irretrievably alter the physical or chemical condition of the drug so that it beco