{"data":{"id":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-39-24-20","jurisdiction":"us-sc","citation":"S.C. Code Ann. § 39-24-20","heading":"Definitions.","body":"As used in this chapter:\n(1) \"Brand name\" means the proprietary or trade name placed upon a drug, its container, label or wrapping at the time of packaging;\n(2) \"Generic name\" means the United States Adopted Name (USAN) or the official title of a drug published in the latest edition of a nationally recognized pharmacopoeia or formulary;\n(3) \"Substitute\" means to dispense, with the practitioner's authorization, a \"therapeutically equivalent\" generic drug product of identical drug salt or an interchangeable biological product in place of the drug or biological product ordered or prescribed;\n(4) \"Therapeutically equivalent\" means the same efficacy and toxicity when administered to an individual in the same dosage form; and\n(5) \"Practitioner\" means a physician, osteopath, dentist, podiatrist, veterinarian, or any other person authorized to prescribe drugs under the laws of this State.","path":["Title 39 - TRADE AND COMMERCE","CHAPTER 24 Drug Product Selection Act"],"source_url":"https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t39c024.php","current_through":"2025 Session of the General Assembly","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T07:17:44Z","sha256":"a5c46c9a609549a5a17792f674a0561c60094d89a5ce514548d9f8e8014b4956","source_id":"us-sc","stale":false,"prev":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-39-24-10","next":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-39-24-30"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}