It establishes legal safeguards for prescription drug distribution to ensure safe and effective pharmaceuticals and is designed to discourage the sale of counterfeit, adulterated, misbranded, sub potent, and expired prescription drugs. It was passed in response to the development of a wholesale sub-market (known as the "diversion market") for prescription drugs.
This legislation establishes legal safeguards for the distribution of prescription drugs to ensure their safety and effectiveness, aiming to prevent the sale of counterfeit, adulterated, misbranded, underdosed, and expired medications. It was enacted in response to the emergence of a wholesale market for prescription drugs that involved illegal practices.