Pharmacy Law and Ethics Questions and Answers

Answer: B

Schedule X lists narcotic and psychotropic substances.

Schedule X of the Drugs and Cosmetics Rules covers habit-forming drugs with a high potential for abuse, such as amphetamine and some barbiturates. They are sold only on a prescription in duplicate, one copy of which the pharmacist keeps, a separate record of sales is kept, and the stock is held under lock and key.

Antibiotics are mostly in Schedule H or H1. Over-the-counter drugs are those not covered by any prescription schedule. Ayurvedic medicines are governed by Chapter IV-A of the Act.

Answer: B

The Poisons Act was enacted in 1919.

The Poisons Act, 1919 empowers state governments to regulate the import, possession and sale of poisons by licensing, and to specify which substances count as poisons.

1909, 1924 and 1935 are distractors close to it in time. The Dangerous Drugs Act followed in 1930 and the Drugs Act in 1940, so the poisons law came first of these.