Rx is short hand for the latin imperative recipere,meaning "take". It was a directive to the pharmacist to "take" a set of ingredients to make up the drug by hand.
It now stands for prescription medications and prescriptions usually start with this directive.
If you have a bonified doctor rx it doesnt matter... just make sure your doctor can legally prescribe whatever it is in your state
Not in the U.S. All prescriptions for Schedule II drugs must be hand-delivered to the pharmacy by the person the prescription is for. The prescriptions also must be printed or written on a special paper that has numerous security features. Also, prescriptions for Schedule II drugs must be filled within six months or they become invalid.
Your RX must be signed by the Dr. If the Secretary has a signed RX, she can either fax or call it into the pharmacy, but it must be ordered by your Dr.
40 billion Rx. / year. [ Pharmacy Practice . . . . . ]
40 billion Rx. / year. [ Pharmacy Practice . . . . . ]
veterinarian
Nothing Rexall in a name. The Rx stands for recipe and the cross mark which makes an x is a prayer. Early medicine had a strong religious foundation.
Controlled Substances are What the DEA are consider dependent drugs of harm from low risk to high risk The DEA categorize these drugs as schedules, 0/1-5 0 being very harmful and addictive to 5 being potentially but very unlikely. Because these Drugs are consider to be harmful the DEA requires all RX(prescriptions) that are controlled be regulated with DEA numbers and DPS numbers to log them, and keep track of them. --- However Antibiotics are not a schedule drugs, and no DEA number is needed for a RX of antibiotics ;so they are not classified as controlled substances because they are not addictive Controlled substance basically means in pharmacy addictive drugs.
non-compliant or noncompliant user of controlled substance
Other than drugs which are accepted by society (prescriptions, cold medicines, coffee, alcohol, etc.), no, they don't use drugs.
Urine, bowel movements and sweating.
AC stands for "before meals", from the Latin ante cibum.