Environmental Health and Safety

DEA Controlled Substances

Millie Tran, Biosafety Officer, 619-594-2865 <mdizon@mail.sdsu.edu>

Procedure for the Use of Controlled Substances in Research and Instruction

Acquisition and Use Procedures:
Receiving Procedures for Controlled Substances

(a) Drugs are to be delivered only to the Student Health Services Pharmacy at the main campus. They may NOT be received by the SDSU or Foundation Receiving Departments, by individual researchers or by the Procurement Department. The only individuals who are authorized to receive controlled substances are the two full-time pharmacists at Student Health Services.

(b) When a drug is received, the drug is to be immediately stored in the Student Health Services Pharmacy. The pharmacist should then notify EH&S of the drug’s arrival.

(c) The signee on the Controlled Substance Registration Certificate and the program coordinator of Controlled Substances at EH&S are the only individuals who can pick up the controlled substance from the Student Health Services Pharmacy. EH&S will record the date, time, name of drug, amount of drug received, number of containers received and the vendor supplying the product on the Controlled Substance Custody Control Sheet (Appendix 6). EH&S will record the number of individual packages or containers received of the respective drug on SDSU’s copy of the FORM 222. EH&S will hold the controlled substance in a secured storage location.

(d) EH&S will notify the principal investigator who ordered the drug that it has arrived. The faculty member or researcher may pick up the drug, or send one of the authorized persons listed on the Controlled Substance Use Authorization Application form (Appendix 2). They must sign the Custody Control Sheet in the presence of an EH&S authorized representative. The signature and a signed picture ID will be verified by an EH&S authorized representative against the EH&S copy of the Use Authorization Application. The only acceptable identifications are a valid driver’s license or SDSU I.D. card.

(e) For security reasons it may be desirable to have an escort (or Public Safety representative) accompany the individual who is carrying the controlled substance to its place of storage.