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Schedule IV (4) Controlled Substances

Drug Enforcement Administration, Department Of Justice: Schedule IV (4) Controlled Substance

TITLE 21-FOOD AND DRUGS
DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION,
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

(a) Schedule IV shall consist of the drugs and other substances, by whatever official name, common or usual name, chemical name, or brand name designated, listed in this section. Each drug or substance has been assigned the DEA Controlled Substances Code Number set forth opposite it.

(b) Narcotic drugs. Unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, any material, compound, mixture, or preparation containing any of the following narcotic drugs, or their salts calculated as the free anhydrous base or alkaloid, in limited quantities as set forth below:

  1. Not more than 1 milligram of difenoxin and not less than 25 micrograms of atropine sulfate per dosage unit
  2. Dextropropoxyphene (alpha-(+)-4-dimethylamino-1,2-diphenyl-3- methyl-2-propionoxybutane)

(c) Depressants. Unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, any material, compound, mixture, or preparation which contains any quantity of the following substances, including its salts, isomers, and salts of isomers whenever the existence of such salts, isomers, and salts of isomers is possible within the specific chemical designation:

  1. Alprazolam
  2. Barbital
  3. Bromazepam
  4. Camazepam
  5. Chloral betaine
  6. Chloral hydrate
  7. Chlordiazepoxide
  8. Clobazam
  9. Clonazepam
  10. Clorazepate
  11. Clotiazepam
  12. Cloxazolam
  13. Delorazepam
  14. Diazepam
  15. Dichloralphenazone
  16. Estazolam
  17. Ethchlorvynol
  18. Ethinamate
  19. Ethyl loflazepate
  20. Fludiazepam
  21. Flunitrazepam
  22. Flurazepam
  23. Halazepam
  24. Haloxazolam
  25. Ketazolam
  26. Loprazolam
  27. Lorazepam
  28. Lormetazepam
  29. Mebutamate
  30. Medazepam
  31. Meprobamate
  32. Methohexital
  33. Methylphenobarbital (mephobarbital)
  34. Midazolam
  35. Nimetazepam
  36. Nitrazepam
  37. Nordiazepam
  38. Oxazepam
  39. Oxazolam
  40. Paraldehyde
  41. Petrichloral
  42. Phenobarbital
  43. Pinazepam
  44. Prazepam
  45. Quazepam
  46. Temazepam
  47. Tetrazepam
  48. Triazolam
  49. Zaleplon
  50. Zolpidem

(d) Fenfluramine. Any material, compound, mixture, or preparation which contains any quantity of the following substances, including its salts, isomers (whether optical, position, or geometric), and salts of such isomers, whenever the existence of such salts, isomers, and salts of isomers is possible:

  1. Fenfluramine

(e) Stimulants. Unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, any material, compound, mixture, or preparation which contains any quantity of the following substances having a stimulant effect on the central nervous system, including its salts, isomers and salts of isomers:

  1. Cathine ((+)-norpseudoephedrine)
  2. Diethylpropion
  3. Fencamfamin
  4. Fenproporex
  5. Mazindol
  6. Mefenorex
  7. Modafinil
  8. Pemoline (including organometallic complexes and chelates thereof)
  9. Phentermine
  10. Pipradrol
  11. Sibutramine
  12. SPA ((-)-1-dimethylamino- 1,2-diphenylethane)

(f) Other substances. Unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, any material, compound, mixture or preparation which contains any quantity of the following substances, including its salts:

  1. Pentazocine
  2. Butorphanol (including its optical isomers)
ABOVE: U.S. Government Printing Office, Code of Federal Regulations, Title 21, Volume 9, Rev. April 1, 2002.
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