The Controlled Drug (Supervision of Management and Use) Regulations 2006 determine the function of accountable officers, their ability to inspect premises and the cooperation of organizations that have involvement with controlled drugs.

These regulations came into force at the beginning of 2007 and require pharmacists to have a standard operating procedure in place for maintaining records of schedule 2 patient returned medication and its destruction. By default it is also a legal requirement to have up to-date procedures in place for the receipt and destruction of other schedule 2 controlled drugs.
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Application of pharmaceutical principles to drug dosage forms is illust rated when drug dosage forms are categorized according to their physical state, degree of heterogeneity, and chemical composition. The usual relevant states of matter are gases, liquids, and solids. Intermolecular forces of attraction are weakest in gases and strongest in solids. Conversions from one physical state to another can involve simply overcoming intermolecular forces of attraction by adding energy (heat) . Chemical composition can have a dramatic effect on physicochemical properties and behavior. For this reason, it is necessary to distinguish between polymers, or macromolecules, and more conventional ( i .e., smaller) molecules, or micromolecules.
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