Current through Rules and Regulations filed through March 20, 2024
(1) Authorized
collectors may place, utilize, and maintain collection receptacles at their DEA
registered location. Receptacles can only be available to receive drugs when
the collector is open for business and only when an authorized employee is
present.
(a) An authorized collector may only
begin receiving drugs for disposal at the facility after providing thirty (30)
days of advance notification to the Board and the Georgia Drugs and Narcotics
Agency of its qualification for and intention to serve as an authorized
collector.
(2)
Collection receptacles must be lockable, sturdy, securely fixed within the
collector's location. If the authorized collector is in a pharmacy, then the
collection receptacle must be in the immediate vicinity of and can be observed
from the prescription department areas where controlled substances are stored
by registrants and where an authorized employee is present, and display a sign
stating that non-controlled and controlled drugs in Schedule II, III, IV, or V
can be accepted and placed in the receptacle. If the collection receptacle is
in a hospital/clinic, it must be in an area monitored by employees, but shall
not be in an area where emergency or urgent care is provided. If the collection
receptacle is in an opioid treatment facility, it must be located in a room
that does not contain other controlled substances and is securely locked with
controlled access.
(3) Each
receptacle must also be capable of holding a removable, tamper-evident, and
tear- resistant inner-liner bearing a unique identification number to receive
the drugs.
(a) To dispose of the contents of
a receptacle, the sealed liners may be promptly delivered or transferred to a
representative for a licensed reverse distributor for destruction. No on-site
disposal of any drug is permitted. Only authorized employees can remove and
seal an inner-liner and maintain records required by this rule.
(b) Authorized collectors may store
inner-liners that have been sealed upon removal from a collection receptacle in
a securely locked, substantially constructed cabinet or a securely locked room
with controlled access for up to three business days until the liners can be
transferred for destruction, and then transferred to a representative for a
licensed reverse distributor for destruction.
(c) Collectors are encouraged to schedule
inner-liner removals and installations as frequently as necessary.
(d) Drugs placed in the authorized receptacle
and stored in secure inner-liners can only be removed from the authorized
collector location for destruction by transfer to a reverse distributor with a
current permit issued by the Board and authorized by the DEA as a
collector.
(e) The date and time
that the numbered inner-liners were taken from the collector and the numbers of
the inner-liners must be recorded in logs: one maintained by the collector for
two years and one maintained by the reverse distributor for each facility for
two years.
(f) The name, Board
permit/license number, address, and telephone number of the reverse distributor
removing the drugs must be recorded in logs maintained by the collector and by
the reverse distributor for a period of at least two years; and
(g) The name and signature of the responsible
person representing the reverse distributor physically removing the
inner-liners must be recorded in logs maintained by the collector and by the
reverse distributor for a period of at least two years. Nothing in this rule
shall prevent a DEA authorized common carrier from serving as the authorized
representative of the reverse distributor.
O.C.G.A. §§
16-13-45, 26-3-7, 26-3-16, 26-4-27, 26-4-28, 26-4-29, 26-4-87, 26-4-112, Pub. L. 111-273.
