New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 13 - LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY
Chapter 45H - CONTROLLED DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES
Subchapter 11 - NARCOTIC TREATMENT PROGRAM
Section 13:45H-11.1 - Definitions

The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

"Compounder" means any person engaging in maintenance or detoxification treatment who also mixes, prepares, packages or changes the dosage form of a narcotic drug listed in Schedules II, III, IV or V for use in maintenance or detoxification treatment by another narcotic treatment program.

"Detoxification treatment" means the administration or dispensing for a period not in excess of 21 days, of a narcotic drug or narcotic drugs in decreasing doses to an individual in order to alleviate adverse physiological or psychological effects incident to withdrawal from the continuous or sustained use of a narcotic drug and as a method of bringing the individual to a narcotic drug-free state within such period of time.

"Maintenance treatment" means the dispensing for a period in excess of 21 days, of a narcotic drug or narcotic drugs in the treatment of an individual for dependence upon heroin or other morphine-like drug.

"Narcotic treatment program" means a program engaged in maintenance or detoxification treatment with narcotic drugs.