Facilities Overview
In State Pharmacies
An in-state pharmacy is a place within this state registered with the West Virginia Board of Pharmacy pursuant to West Virginia Code § 30-5-22 to dispense drugs and provide pharmacist care.
In State Controlled Substance Permit
Unless exempted by Rule 15-2-3.2., every person who manufactures, distributes, including reverse distributing, or dispenses any controlled substances or who proposes to engage in the manufacture, distribution or dispensing of any controlled substance within this state shall obtain annually a controlled substance permit from the West Virginia Board of Pharmacy.
Limited Pseudoephedrine Distributor
Every wholesaler, manufacturer, or distributor of schedule V pseudoephedrine, ephedrine, and phenylpropanolamine products (“PSE”) shall be subject to the Methamphetamine Laboratory Eradication Act, Chapter 60A, Article 10 of the West Virginia Code, as amended, and West Virginia Code of State Rules 15-11-1, et seq. As such, every wholesaler, manufacturer, and distributor in West Virginia dealing in PSE that does not have a West Virginia Controlled Substances Handling permit must obtain registration with the West Virginia Board of Pharmacy as a Limited Schedule V Pseudoephedrine Distributor.
Mail Order Pharmacy
A mail order pharmacy is a pharmacy, regardless of its location, which dispenses greater than twenty-five percent prescription drugs via the mail or other delivery services.
Manufacturer
A manufacturer is any person who is engaged in manufacturing, preparing, propagating, compounding, processing, packaging, repackaging, or labeling of a prescription drug, whether within or outside this state.
Third Party Logistics Provider
A third-party logistics provider is an entity that provides or coordinates warehousing, or other logistics services of a product in interstate commerce on behalf of a manufacturer, wholesale distributor, or dispenser of a product, but does not take ownership of the product, nor have responsibility to direct the sale or disposition of the product.
Wholesale Drug Distributer
A wholesale drug distributor or wholesale distributor is any person or entity engaged in wholesale distribution of prescription drugs, including, but not limited to, manufacturers, repackers, own-label distributors, jobbers, private-label distributors, brokers, warehouses, including manufacturers' and distributors' warehouses, chain drug warehouses and wholesale drug warehouses, independent wholesale drug traders, prescription drug repackagers, physicians, dentists, veterinarians, birth control and other clinics, individuals, hospitals, nursing homes and/or their providers, health maintenance organizations and other health care providers, and retail and hospital pharmacies that conduct wholesale distributions, including, but not limited to, any pharmacy distributor as defined in this section. A wholesale drug distributor shall not include any for hire carrier or person or entity hired solely to transport prescription drugs.