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What are the three criteria for the schedules of classifications of controlled substances?
To meet Schedule III criteria, a drug must have:
- A lower potential for abuse when compared to Schedule I and II drugs.
- A currently accepted medical use in the U.S.
- Low to moderate potential for physical dependence or a high psychological dependence when abused.
What are the Schedule 1 substances?
Schedule I drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. Some examples of Schedule I drugs are: heroin, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), marijuana (cannabis), 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy), methaqualone, and peyote.
How are drugs classified in Schedules?
Drugs are sorted into their schedules based on their potential for abuse, legal status, and medicinal uses. Schedule I is for the drugs with the highest dangers, and Schedule V is for narcotics with a relatively low potential for addiction.
What is the Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971?
The Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971 is a United Nations treaty designed to control psychoactive drugs such as amphetamine-type stimulants, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, and psychedelics signed in Vienna, Austria on 21 February 1971.
What are the schedules for the manufacture of other psychotropic substances?
Quantity used for the manufacture of other psychotropic substances Schedules I, II, III and IV D. Quarterly statistics on imports and exports of substances in Schedule II of the Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971 (form A/P) 102.
What is the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs?
The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 could not ban the many newly discovered psychotropics, since its scope was limited to drugs with cannabis-, coca-, and opium-like effects. On February 21, 1971, a conference of plenipotentiaries in Vienna signed a new Convention worded to include almost any conceivable mind-altering substance.
What are schedules of Controlled Substances?
A common feature shared by most implementing legislation is the establishment of several classes or Schedules of controlled substances, similarly to the Single Convention and the Convention on Psychotropic Substances, so that compliance with international law can be assured simply by placing a drug into the appropriate Schedule.