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In 1970 the Comprehensive Drug abuse Prevention and Control Act
was passed into law. Title II of this law, the Controlled Substances
Act, is the legal foundation of narcotics enforcement in the United
States. The Controlled Substance Act regulates the manufacture and
distribution of drugs, and places all drugs into one of five schedules.
SCHEDULE I
A: Drug has no current accepted medical use.
B: Drug has a high potential for abuse.
Class examples: Heroin,
Methaqualone, LSD, Peyote, Psilocybin, Marijuana, Hashish, Hash Oil,
and various amphetamine variants.
SCHEDULE II
A: Drug has current accepted medical use.
B: Drug has high potential for abuse.
Class examples: Dilaudid,
Demerol, Methadone, Cocaine, PCP, Morphine and certain cannibis,
amphetamine, and Barbiturates types.
SCHEDULE III
A: Drug has current accepted medical use.
B: Drug has medium potential for abuse.
Class examples: Opium,
Vicodan, Tylenol w/Codeine and other Narcotic, amphetamine, and
barbiturate types.
SCHEDULE IV
A: Drug has current accepted medical use.
B: Drug has low potential for abuse.
Class examples: Darvocet,
Xanax, Valium, Halcyon, Ambien, Ativan, and other barbiturate types.
SCHEDULE V
A: Drug has accepted medical use.
B: Drug has lowest potential for abuse.
Class examples: Lomotil, Phenergan, and liquid suspensions.
| Definitions of Terms Used |
| Barbiturates | Depressant drugs that produce relaxation and sleep. Barbiturates include sleeping pills such as pentobarbital (Nembutal)and secobarbital (Seconal).
| | Cocaine | A highly addictive stimulant drug derived from the cocoa plant that produces feelings of euphoria. Also see Crack.
| | Codeine | A natural opioid compound that is a relatively weak, but still effective, opiate analgesic. It has also been used to treat other problems (e.g., to relieve coughing).
| | Drug | Any substance, other than food, that changes the function or structure of the body or mind when ingested. Drugs essentially are poisons. The degree they are taken determines the effect. A small amount acts as a stimulant. A greater amount acts as a sedative. A larger amount acts as a poison and can kill one dead. This is true of any drug. Each has a different amount at which it gives those results.
| | Drug abuse | The use of illegal drugs or the inappropriate use of legal drugs. The repeated use of drugs to produce pleasure, to alleviate stress, or to alter or avoid reality - or all three.
| | Hashish | The concentrated resin of the marijuana plant.
| | Heroin | The potent, widely abused opiate that produces a profound addiction. It consists of two morphine molecules linked together chemically.
| | LSD | An hallucinogenic drug that acts on the serotonin receptor.
| | Marijuana | A psychoactive drug made from the leaves of the cannabis plant. It is usually smoked but can also be eaten. See Cannabis.
| | Methadone | A long-lasting synthetic opiate used to treat cancer pain and heroin addiction.
| | Morphine | Morphine The most potent natural opiate compound produced by the opium poppy.
| | Narcotic | a drug (as codeine, methadone, or morphine) that in moderate doses dulls the senses, relieves pain, and induces profound sleep but in excessive doses causes stupor, coma, or convulsions drug (as marijuana or LSD) subject to restriction similar to that of addictive narcotics whether in fact physiologically addictive and narcotic or not
| | PCP | Phencyclidine (PCP): Originally developed as an anesthetic, PCP may act as an hallucinogen, stimulant, or sedative.
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