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C. U C. P. ALUMNI JOURNAL 



Treasury Department, 

 Office of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. 



Washington, D. C, June 7, 1915. 



(T. D. 2213) 

 NARCOTIC LAW. 



Prescriptions for narcotic drugs in any quantity not exempt frotn the 

 provisions of the act of Congress approved December //, 1914, unless for 

 ''''preparations'' or '''■remedies'^ exempted under Section 6. 



Attention is directed to paragraph 

 4 of T. D. 2172 relating to the exemption 

 of certain ''preparations" and ''remedies'' 

 from the provisions of this law. The 

 question arises whether or not "prescrip- 

 tions" come within the definition of 

 "preparations" or "remedies," as given 

 in the act. The word "preparations," as 

 generally used and understood, means 

 ready-made or prepared medicines, and 

 the word "remedies" means that which 

 cures or is efificacious in a specific disease 

 or diseases under all conditions, while 

 the term "prescription" is the written 

 directions or recipe of a physician for the 

 compounding or preparing of a medicine 

 and directions for its use to meet the 

 existing conditions in the case of a par- 

 ticular patient. 



It is therefor apparent that the ex- 

 emptions in Section 6 of the act as 

 interpreted in T. D. 2172, relating to 

 "preparations and remedies" containing 

 more than the specified quantities of the 

 drugs enumerated, do not apply to 



"prescriptions" written b\ registered 

 physicians calling for any quantity of 

 the narcotic drug, unless such "prescrip- 

 tion" is written for a "preparation or 

 remedy" prepared in accordance with the 

 United States Pharmacopoeia, National 

 Formulary, or other formula, or for a 

 "remedy or preparation" prepared under 

 private or proprietary formula, carried 

 in stock by a dealer, which may be dis- 

 pensed without a "prescription." 



Every "prescription," therefor, con- 

 taining a narcotic drug in any quantity, 

 with the exemptions noted, must have 

 indicated thereon the name and address 

 of the patient, the date, the name and 

 address of the physician, and his registry 

 number. Such "prescriptions" cannot be 

 refilled and must be filed for a period of 

 two years. 



W. H. OSBORN. 



Commissioner of Internal Revenue. 



Approved : 



W. G. McAdoo. 



Secretarv of the Treasury. 



Dr. Victor Robinson took part in a 

 symposium on "Alcohol and Drug Hab- 

 its" held under the auspices of the 

 People's Institute in the Great Hall of 

 Cooper's Institute on the evening of 

 February 9th. 



George Hohmann, who joined the 

 ranks of the benedicts in December, has 

 resigned as intern at the Knickerbocker 

 Hospital and has been appointed pathol- 

 ogist at Fordham Hospital. 



