§208 Certain preparations and sales excepted

Summary

Allows some low-dose or specially labeled medicines to be sold without the stricter controls. That includes liquids or solids that contain no more than two grains of opium, one-quarter grain of morphine, one-quarter grain of cocaine, or two grains of chloral hydrate per fluid ounce (liquid) or per avoirdupois ounce (solid). It also covers medicines sold in good faith for diarrhea and cholera if each bottle or package has specific directions and a warning against habitual use, liniments or ointments plainly labeled "for external use only," and Dover’s powder sold in amounts not over twenty grains. The rules do not let anyone sell, give away, or prescribe cocaine, morphine, opium, chloral hydrate, their salts, or preparations containing them to habitual users. A recognized, reputable physician who owes permanent allegiance to the United States may, in good faith and under professional care, provide such substances to a habitual user when needed for treatment and not to evade the rules. Wholesale sales between jobbers, manufacturers, retail druggists, hospitals, and scientific or public institutions are also excluded from the stricter rules.