Scheduling Criteria Under the Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”) Schedule I: • High potential for abuse; • No currently accepted medical use in treatment in the U.S.; and • Lack of accepted safety for use under medical supervision. 21 U.S.C. § 812(b)(1). Schedule III: • Potential for abuse less than drugs or …
Last week the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas announced that People’s Rx, a local chain operating five retail pharmacies and a compounding laboratory in the Austin area, agreed to pay $200,000 to settle allegations that it violated the Controlled Substances Act …
If a patient presents a paper prescription for a controlled substance to a pharmacy and the pharmacy cannot fill it, the patient can take that prescription to another pharmacy. However, electronic prescriptions for controlled substances (“EPCS”), which a practitioner transmits directly to a pharmacy, do …
Anabolic steroids that include testosterone, methyltestosterone, nandrolone decanoate and oxandrolone are schedule III controlled substances with currently accepted medical uses in the U.S. Other anabolic steroids are approved only for use in veterinary medicine. Because anabolic steroids are also abused to enhance athletic performance and …
President Barack Obama signed the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016 (“CARA”) intended to reverse serious prescription drug abuse trend in the United States on July 22, 2016. CARA amended the Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”) to enable physicians or patients to request pharmacists to …
Like the celebrated Texas dance of the same name, reporting controlled substance thefts and significant losses to the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) requires just that: two steps. For the first time in eighteen years, DEA has revised its controlled substance theft and significant loss reporting …
The Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) has designated precursor chemicals, including 4-piperidone just last month, used in the illicit manufacture of controlled substances as List I and II chemicals over the years as “laboratory supplies,” but has never revised or updated its Special Surveillance List. Until …
In addition to regulating drugs of abuse, the federal Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”) controls the manufacture and distribution of chemicals used in the illicit manufacture of controlled substances. As the primary agency enforcing the CSA, the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) previously designated nine chemicals used …
Eric Idle, as a body collector, immortalized the phrase, “Bring out your dead,” in the 1975 comedy classic, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) could voice a modern variation, “Bring out your meds,” as the agency and its law enforcement …
Drugs and substances classified within schedule I of the federal Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”) by definition have a high potential for abuse, no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States, and lack accepted safety for use under medical supervision. 21 U.S.C. § …
Perhaps you obtain controlled substance quotas or submit ARCOS reports? Maybe you identify and report suspicious orders or thefts/losses. Or you obtain import or export permits, submit import or export declarations or listed chemical DEA-486s. Do you want to learn more? You have your chance. DEA’s …
Like EF Hutton television commercials of the 1970s and ‘80s, when Attorney General Merrick Garland talks, people listen. With Hutton it was about investing, for the Attorney General it is cannabis. AG Garland most recently talked cannabis during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week …
The Drug Enforcement Administration’s (“DEA’s”) February 13th determination that THC acetate ester (“THCO”) is a schedule I controlled substance under the federal Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”) has received a good amount of attention in the cannabis press. That determination, however, was neither a stretch nor a …
Last October, President Joe Biden directed the Secretary of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) and the Attorney General to begin the administrative process of reviewing current marijuana scheduling under federal law. Then, Congress passed and the President signed the Medical Marijuana and Cannabidiol Research Expansion …
In October, when pardoning those federally convicted of cannabis possession, President Joe Biden directed the Secretary of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) and the Attorney General “to initiate the administrative process to review expeditiously how marijuana is scheduled under federal law.” See President Biden Gives …
