Drugs in TIC Policy

Life University’s Policy on Prescribing of Drugs by Doctors of Chiropractic

The Board of Trustees of Life University hereby adopts the following policy regarding the prescribing of drugs (1) by doctors of chiropractic:

Life University, the world’s largest chiropractic university, has a long history of teaching, supporting and advocating the traditional vitalistic philosophy and scope of practice of chiropractic as defined in the mission statement of Life University’s College of Chiropractic. (2) The Life University Board of Trustees opposes the further medicalization of chiropractic through any attempt to permit the prescribing of drugs by Doctors of Chiropractic.
(1) Definition of a Drug as taken from the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act –
(g)(1) The term ‘‘drug’’ means
(A) articles recognized in the official United States Pharmacopoeia, official Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States, or official National Formulary, or any supplement to any of them; and
(B) articles intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in man or other animals; and
(C) articles (other than food) intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or other animals; and
(D) articles intended for use as a component of any article specified in clause (A), (B), or (C).
A food or dietary supplement for which a claim, subject to sections 343(r)(1)(B) and 343(r)(3) of this title or sections 343(r)(1)(B) and 343(r)(5)(D) of this title, is made in accordance with the requirements of section 343(r) of this title is not a drug solely because the label or the labeling contains such a claim. A food, dietary ingredient, or dietary supplement for which a truthful and not misleading statement is made in accordance with section 343(r)(6) of this title is not a drug under clause (C) solely because the label or the labeling contains such a statement. (Emphasis added)
According to Federal law, articles MUST meet the definition described in A, B and C listed above to be considered drugs by the Food and Drug administration.

(2) The mission of the Life University College of Chiropractic, centered on the Vertebral Subluxation Complex, is to educate, mentor and graduate skilled and compassionate Doctors of Chiropractic to be primary care clinicians, physicians, teachers and professionals, using the University’s Core Values as their foundation.