639.007 - “Drug” and “medicine” defined. - Nevada Statutes

639.007  “Drug” and “medicine” defined.  “Drug” and “medicine” mean:

      1.  Articles recognized in the official United States Pharmacopoeia, the official Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States, or official National Formulary, or any supplement to any of them;

      2.  Articles and devices intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease in humans or other animals;

      3.  Articles, other than food, aspirin and effervescent saline analgesics, intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of humans or other animals;

      4.  Articles intended for use as a component of any article specified in subsection 1, 2 or 3; and

      5.  Any controlled substance.

      (Added to NRS by 1967, 1651; A 1971, 2039; 1983, 1505; 1987, 1566)