K M Dayashankar
HYDERABAD, SEPTEMBER 04, 2024: In a decisive move to curb misuse, Drugs Control Administration, Telangana has instructed the retail medical shops and hospital-attached pharmacies to sell the ‘Pregabalin’ formulations medicine only with a prescription from a registered medical practitioner.
In an official released here on Wednesday, DCA Director-General VB Kamalasan Reddy said that following the reports about the abuse potential of Pregabalin medicine over last one decade in the state, the DCA had imposed restrictions on its sales. The medical shops have been directed to sell the medicine only with a prescription from a registered medical practitioner.
The DCA DG also instructed the medical shops to maintain prescription register at the time of sale, time of supply and the serial number of register entry, name and address of prescriber, name and address of patient, name of drug and quantity, name of manufacturer, batch number and date of expiry of potency and signature of registered pharmacist who supplied medicine or under whose supervision it was supplied.
The above instructions should be followed strictly by the medical shops and any deviations would attract punishment under Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 and the rules made there under, he stated.
The drug Pregabalin is used for treatment of peripheral neuropathic pain in adults (such as diabetic neuropathy) and the management of fibromyalgia syndrome either as a single ingredient formulation or in a fixed dose combination with Methylcobalamin, Alpha-lipoic Acid, Pyridoxine and Folic Acid.
