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(21) The term ''practitioner'' means a physician, dentist, veterinarian,
scientific investigator, pharmacy, hospital, or other person licensed,
registered, or otherwise permitted, by the United States or the
jurisdiction in which he practices or does research, to distribute,
dispense, conduct research with respect to, administer, or use in
teaching or chemical analysis, a controlled substance in the course of
professional practice or research.
(22) The term ''production'' includes the manufacture, planting,
cultivation, growing, or harvesting of a controlled substance.
(23) The term ''immediate precursor'' means a substance -
(A) which the Attorney General has found to be and by
regulation designated as being the principal compound used, or
produced primarily for use, in the manufacture of a controlled
substance;
(B) which is an immediate chemical intermediary used or likely
to be used in the manufacture of such controlled substance; and
(C) the control of which is necessary to prevent, curtail, or limit
the manufacture of such controlled substance.
(24) The term ''Secretary'', unless the context otherwise indicates,
means the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
(25) The term ''serious bodily injury'' means bodily injury which
involves -
(A) a substantial risk of death;
(B) protracted and obvious disfigurement; or
(C) protracted loss or impairment of the function of a bodily
member, organ, or mental faculty.
(26) The term ''State'' means any State, territory, or possession of the
United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto
Rico, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and the Canal Zone.
(27) The term ''ultimate user'' means a person who has lawfully
obtained, and who possesses, a controlled substance for his own use
or for the use of a member of his household or for an animal owned by
him or by a member of his household.
(28) The term ''United States'', when used in a geographic sense,
means all places and waters, continental or insular, subject to the
jurisdiction of the United States.
(29) The term ''maintenance treatment'' means the dispensing, for a
period in excess of twenty-one days, of a narcotic drug in the
treatment of an individual for dependence upon heroin or other