Connecticut General Statutes Title 20. Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification, Title Protection and Registration. Examining Boards § 20-613. Dispensing of drug or legend device pursuant to prescription only; exceptions. Emergency dispensing of drug or device in care-giving, correctional or juvenile training institutions; regulations. Pharmacy technicians. Prescribing practitioner authorized to dispense own prescription, when

(a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (d) of this section, a drug or a legend device may be dispensed pursuant to a prescription only in a pharmacy or institutional pharmacy by a pharmacist or by a pharmacy intern when acting under the direct supervision of a pharmacist, or by an individual holding a temporary permit.

(b) In care-giving institutions and correctional or juvenile training institutions in emergency situations when the pharmacist is not available for the dispensing of drugs or devices from the institutional pharmacy, the prescription shall be reviewed by the nursing supervisor or a physician before administration of the drug or device and recorded with the pharmacist in its original form or a copy thereof. After the required review in such emergency situations, the person authorized by the institution may dispense drugs and devices from the institutional pharmacy pursuant to regulations adopted by the commissioner, with the advice and assistance of the commission, in accordance with chapter 54. 1

(c) A pharmacy technician in a pharmacy or an institutional pharmacy may assist, under the direct supervision of a pharmacist, in the dispensing of drugs and devices. A person whose license to practice pharmacy is under suspension or revocation shall not act as a pharmacy technician.

(d) Nothing in sections 20-570 to 20-630, inclusive, shall prevent a prescribing practitioner from dispensing the prescribing practitioner's own prescriptions to the prescribing practitioner's own patients when authorized within the scope of the prescribing practitioner's own practice and when done in compliance with sections 20-14c to 20-14g, inclusive.