Miscellaneous Notes

Btw government pharmacists are REGISTERED and not LICENSED =) Licensed pharmacists
are private sector people.

In the Third Schedule of the DD (list of “exemptions” from DDA; as given by DDR 25)),
everything would be a PS (eg. methadone, morphine and pethidine) EXCEPT (codeine,
diphenoxylate and pholcodeine; which are Group C) and opium (which is Group B).

In law, shall means “wajib”.

What is the difference between drug, poison, non-poison, psychotropic substance and DD?

Drug (see definition in SODA) → … substance, product… internally or externally for medicinal
purposes.

Poison (anything in First Schedule of PA)

Non-poison (by definition, anything NOT in First Schedule of PA eg. PCM and LMS)

Psychotropic substance (anything in Third Schedule of PA)

DD (Anything in First Schedule of DD)

THEREFORE, drug consists of poisons, non-poisons, PS and DD (these are sub-sets of drug) as
all these are within the definition of → … substance, product… internally or externally for
medicinal purposes.

How to differentiate between “poisons book” and “prescription book”?

Prescription book – for dispensed medicine (Group B and C)

Poisons book – OTHER than dispensed medicine (eg. drugs for research purposes).