Drug Controlled Substance Researcher Registration

Washington State holds 298 active credentials of this type — 0.1% of every active health care credential in the state. Here is what that number is made of, and how to check one.

What kind of credential this is

A Drug Controlled Substance Researcher Registration is a Registration — the lightest of the three main forms — the state records who is doing the work. A registration is not a statement that the holder was examined the way a licence-holder was, and the difference matters to an employer.

That word is not a formality. Washington issues 74,135 active credentials in this form across the state, and it decides what the holder may do without someone else’s supervision. How a registration differs from the others.

When these credentials expire

Washington renews on the holder’s birthday, so these 298 expiry dates are spread right across the calendar rather than falling together. By year:

How long these holders have been credentialled

The oldest Drug Controlled Substance Researcher Registration credential still active in Washington was first issued in 2001. 95 of the 298 were issued in 2024 or later — 31.9% of the profession is that new.

The disciplinary flag

None of the 298 active credentials of this type carries a disciplinary flag in the Department’s published file.

Do not let the date pass

298 credentials of this type are active in Washington. Washington renews most of them on the holder’s birthday, every year or every two years, and continuing-education hours have to be done before that date — not after. Leave your details and we will tell you when yours is close, and pass your request for continuing-education hours to providers who teach for this credential.

We take no commission and we vouch for no training provider. We have no arrangement with any provider today — we are collecting these requests in order to go and find them. What we do with this.

Some of the 298 holders

Named as the Department of Health holds them, and limited to 140 rows — the full set is in the search, by number or by surname.

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