Definitions

The following definitions shall be applicable to this chapter: (1) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Health. (2) “Committee” means the Controlled Substance Database Committee created by T.C.A., Title 53, Chapter 10, part 3. (3) “Controlled substance(s)” means a drug, substance, or immediate precursor in Schedules I through VI as defined or listed in the Tennessee Drug Control Act, compiled in T.C.A., Title 39, Chapter 17, part 3. (4) “Database” means the controlled substance database created by T.C.A., Title 53, Chapter 10, part 3. (5) “Department” means the Department of Health. (6) “Dispense” means to physically deliver a controlled substance covered by this chapter to any person, institution or entity with the intent that it be consumed away from the premises from which it is dispensed. It does not include the act of writing a prescription by a practitioner to be filled at a pharmacy. For purposes of this part, physical delivery includes mailing controlled substances into this state. (7) “Dispenser” means the entity or individual that has the authority to and actually physically delivers a controlled substance to any person with the intent that it be consumed away from the premises from which it is dispensed. For purposes of reporting, “dispenser” as used in this section means a pharmacy where a controlled substance is dispensed from a licensed pharmacy and means an authorized individual when a controlled substance is dispensed outside a licensed pharmacy. (8) “Healthcare practitioner,” for the purposes of this part only, means: (a) A person licensed, registered, or otherwise permitted to prescribe, distribute, or dispense a controlled substance in the course of professional practice; (b) A pharmacy, hospital, or other institution licensed, registered, or otherwise permitted to distribute, or dispense, or administer a controlled substance in the course of professional practice; or (c) A certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA) as described in T.C.A. § 63-7-103. COMMISSIONER’S CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE MONITORING CHAPTER 1145-01 DATABASE RULES (9) “Law enforcement personnel” means agents of the Tennessee bureau of investigation, agents of a judicial district drug task force, drug enforcement administration agents, and certified law enforcement officers certified pursuant to T.C.A. § 38-8-107, and certified law enforcement officers by other states.