Controlled Substance Act

The Controlled Substances Act of 1970 regulates die manufacture, distribution, and dispensing of drugs that have abuse potential (see information under Federal Drag Legislation and Enforcement in diis chapter). Drag under the Controlled Substances Act are divided into five schedules, based on their potential for abuse and physical and psychological dependence Display 1-2 describes the five schedules. 

Controlled Substances Act of 1970, 3 90 Controlled temperature oven, gas chromatography, 4 613 Controllers, programmable logic, 20 670-671 Control needs/options, in industrial hygiene, 14 221-222... 

Controlled Substance Act and Controlled Substances Import and Export Act. Removed regulation of drug abuse from FDA (transferred to the Drag Enforcement Agency) and provided for stringent regulation of pharmaceuticals with abuse potential. 

In 1970, the U.S. government passed the Controlled Substances Act, which classified all drugs into one of five categories, or schedules. In effect, this law classified drugs... 

In 1970, the U.S. government passed the original Controlled Substances Act, and under this law methamphetamine was classified as a Schedule II drug in its injectable form and a Schedule III in its noninjectable (pill) form. However, a year later, both forms of methamphetamine were reclassified as Schedule II drugs. Today, it is still sold under the name Des-oxyn for a few medical uses, such as for the treatment of atten-tion-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and narcolepsy. 

In the United States today, the legal standard by which "good and "bad" drugs are now measured is the Controlled Substances Act of 1970. This act divides all known drugs into one of five classes, known as schedules. The primary criterion by which a compound is placed into one or another schedule is its potential for abuse, that is, its potential for addictive or otherwise harmful nonmedical applications. The Controlled Substances Act provides detailed descriptions of, restrictions on, and penalties for the use of chemical compounds in each of the five schedules. These schedules are defined as follows ... 

Source The Controlled Substances Act of 1970, Public Law 91-513. Provisions of the act can be accessed online at http //www4.law.cornell.edu/ uscode/21/chl 3.html. 

GHB has met a somewhat different fate in the United States, however. In 1990, the FDA banned the sale of the drug in the United States because of its concerns over possible risks to human health. In view of the generally positive research on the drug s use, the sci-entihc basis of the FDA s decision was not entirely clear at the time to some observers. In any case, the drug s legal status was clarified in 2000 when the DEA classihed it as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act. 

Some analogs of GHB are also available on the street. These include gamma hydroxyvalerate (GHV), gamma butyrolactone (GBL), gamma valerolactone (GVL), and 1,4-hutanediol. The last three of these drugs all metabolize into GHB, so they have effects similar to those of GHB itself. None of the four analogs of GHB has yet been classified by the DEA in any one of the five schedules defined by the Controlled Substances Act. 

Controlled Substances Act This important piece of legislation outlines the control, evaluation, and penalties of all narcotic agents and other dangerous drugs. 

In the U.S., all opioids are controlled substances. Section 802 of the Controlled Substances Act defines an opiate as ... 

According to the Controlled Substances Act, the term narcotic drug refers to more than just opiate drugs it also includes opium, poppy straw, derivatives of opium and opiates, cocaine, coca leaves, and extracts that contain cocaine and ecgonine (the major metabolite of cocaine) and its derivatives. These may be directly or indirectly produced by extraction from substances, by chemical synthesis, or by a combination of both methods. 

In 1970, in response to a rising level of drug abuse. Congress enacted the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act, also known as the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). The Drug Enforcement Administration has categorized controlled substances (based on the CSA) into five different schedules. The five schedules are defined as follows ... 

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