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Question 1. A pharmacist wants to independently furnish naloxone under the statewide protocol. The pickup is a mother getting naloxone for her adult son, and she says, "I don't need the counseling, just give me the kit." What must the pharmacist do?
- A. Document the counseling refusal and furnish the naloxone, as with any prescription.
- B. Provide the overdose-response training and counseling anyway, because naloxone counseling is mandatory and cannot be waived.
- C. Refuse to furnish naloxone to anyone but the patient who would use it.
- D. Require a prescription before furnishing, since counseling was declined.
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Answer: B. The naloxone protocol requires the pharmacist to provide overdose recognition and response training and to counsel the recipient, and that counseling is not waivable, precisely because the person receiving the drug is often not the person who will overdose. A wrongly imports the ordinary counseling-refusal habit into a setting where refusal is not allowed. C invents a patient-only limit that does not exist; furnishing to a third party like a family member is exactly the point. D invents a prescription requirement that the standing protocol eliminates.
Question 2. A pharmacist's conduct is clearly harmful but does not match any specifically enumerated ground in the California unprofessional-conduct statute. Defense counsel argues the board therefore has no authority to discipline. Is that argument sound?
- A. Yes; the board may act only on the specifically listed grounds.
- B. No; the statutory grounds are non-exclusive, so conduct need not be specifically enumerated for the board to act.
- C. Yes, unless the conduct is a felony.
- D. No, but only if another state has already disciplined the pharmacist.
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Answer: B. The unprofessional-conduct grounds are expressly non-exclusive; the list is a floor, not a ceiling, so the board can reach conduct it never specifically names. A misreads a non-exclusive list as exhaustive. C invents a felony threshold the statute does not impose for this authority. D invents an out-of-state-discipline precondition; another state's action is one listed ground, not a gatekeeper for all others.
Question 3. A sales rep from a licensed distributor offers to drop off a bottle of a Schedule II product at your pharmacy "as a favor," with no invoice and no order record, to tide you over a shortage. Under federal law, what is the problem?
- A. Nothing; both parties are registered, so the transfer is lawful.
- B. The transfer would occur outside the documented, closed system the CSA requires; every transfer must run through registered parties and be recorded.
- C. It is lawful only if the quantity is under a 72-hour supply.
- D. It is lawful only if you notify the state board within 7 days.
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Answer: B. The CSA builds a closed system in which every transfer of a controlled substance must move through registered parties and be documented. An undocumented handoff breaks that traceability even between two registrants. A is wrong because registration status alone does not authorize an off-the-books transfer; the documentation is the point. C invents a quantity threshold that does not exist for this rule. D invents a notification cure that does not make an undocumented transfer lawful.
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