639.0065  “Dispense” defined.

1.  “Dispense” means to deliver a controlled substance or dangerous drug to an ultimate user, patient or subject of research by or pursuant to the lawful order of a practitioner, including the prescribing by a practitioner, administering, packaging, labeling or compounding necessary to prepare the substance for that delivery.

2.  The term does not include the furnishing of a controlled substance by a hospital pharmacy for inpatients.

(Added to NRS by 1995, 287)