Scheduled drugs

DEA Schedules. Drugs under jurisdiction of the Controlled Substances Act are divided into five schedules based on their potential for abuse and physical and psychological dependence. All controlled substances listed in Drug Facts and ComparisondE) are identified by schedule as follows ... 

Racemic f/zreo-methylphenidate was approved for the treatment of fatigue, nausea, and depression in 1955 under the brand name Ritalin , and was first used in children in 1958 with an approval for hyperkinetic disorder (ADHD) in 1960. Methylphenidate has an even shorter half-life than amphetamine, and its use in treating ADHD was limited by the fact that schoolchildren would need to visit a nurse during the day to take a second dose of this scheduled drug (in order to maintain efficacy throughout the entire school day). In humans, injecting methylphenidate produces effects similar to intravenous cocaine, but oral methylphenidate is adsorbed very slowly from the gut into the blood and takes an unusually long time (estimated 2.5 h) to reach a peak concentration... 

Which brings us back to the mushrooms, and the topic of the law. In the original writing of the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, our Federal drug law, there are only four plants listed as being "Scheduled Drugs." In Schedule I there was Marijuana (later defined as the plant Cannabis spp.) and Peyote (later defined as the botanical Lophophora williamsii) in Schedule II there was Opium poppy and poppy straw, and Coca leaves. It is generally known that commercial opium comes from the plant Papaver somniferum and that commercial coca comes... 

Physicians and pharmacists prescribing and dispensing Scheduled drugs must register annually with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), keep an accurate inventory of Scheduled drugs, and comply with a list of other stipulations. 

AmiShsEfteypitesiare scheduled drugs which have a definite therapeutic use in the treatment of narcolepsy and attention deficit disorder (ADD) in children. Ritalin , Dexedrine and, to a lesser extent, Cylert are used in the treatment of ADD. It is believed that ADD is caused by a deficiency of brain NE and DA which normally help a child to focus his or her attention on... 

Cocaine is used medically by otorhinolaryngologists and plastic surgeons as an epinephrine cocaine mixture. Solutions for topical application are typically less than 4% cocaine hydrochloride. In the U.S. cocaine is a scheduled drug under the federal Controlled Substances Act of 1970. Refined cocaine, in the form of the base or hydrochloride salt, is self-administered by many routes, including snorting, smoking, genital application, and by injection. 

In Canada, 2C-B is a scheduled drug under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. If convicted of pos-... 

Kartzinel R. 1981. Guidelines for scheduling drugs under the Controlled Substances Act [Proceedings] . Psychopharmacol. Bull. 17 40-42. 

Strattera is a medication that has the same efficacy as Ritalin and is not a scheduled drug. Parents who are hesitant to administer stimulants to their child now have a reasonable alternative. The nurse should provide factual information. 

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