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TCA 39-17-406

Controlled substances in Schedule I

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This statute lists the specific drugs classified in Schedule I (the most dangerous category), including opiates and other substances with high abuse potential and no legal medical use in the U.S.

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(a) Schedule I consists of the drugs and other substances, by whatever official name, common or usual name, chemical name, or brand name designated, listed in this section. (A) Substances recognized as drugs in the United States Pharmacopoeia, official Homeopaths Pharmacopoeia of the United States, or official National Formulary, or any supplement to any of them. See Tennessee Code 39-17-402Manufacture: means the production, preparation, propagation, compounding, conversion or processing of a controlled substance, either directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of natural origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis, and includes any packaging or repackaging of the substance or labeling or relabeling of its container, except that "manufacture" does not include the preparation or compounding of a controlled substance by an individual for the individual's own use or the preparation, compounding, packaging, or labeling of a controlled substance by:(A) A practitioner as an incident to administering or dispensing a controlled substance in the course of professional practice. See Tennessee Code 39-17-402United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105(b) Opiates, unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, means any of the following opiates, including their isomers, esters, ethers, salts, and salts of isomers, esters, and ethers, whenever the existence of such isomers, esters, ethers, and salts is possible within the specific chemical designation; provided, that for the purposes of subdivision (b)(48)(B)(xv), 3-Methylfentanyl, only, “isomer” includes the optical and geometric isomers: (1) Acetylmethadol; (2) Allylprodine; (3) Alphacetylmethadol (except levo-alphacetylmethadol, also known as levo-alpha-acetylmethadol; levomethadyl acetate; or LAAM); (4) Alphameprodine; (5) Alphamethadol; (6) Benzethidine; (7) Betacetylmethadol; (8) Betameprodine; (9) Betamethadol; (10) Betaprodine; (11) Clonitazene; (12) Dextromoramide; (13) Diampromide; (14) Diethylthiambutene; (15) Difenoxin; (16) Dimenoxadol; (17) Dimepheptanol; (18) Dimethylthiambutene; (19) Dioxaphetyl butyrate; (20) Dipipanone; (21) Ethylmethylthiambutene; (22) Etonitazene; (23) Etoxeridine; (24) Furethidine; (25) Hydroxypethidine; (26) Ketobemidone; (27) Levomoramide; (28) Levophenacylmorphan; (29) Morpheridine; (30) MPPP (1-methyl-4-phenyl-4-propionoxypiperidine); (31) Noracymethadol; (32) Norlevorphanol; (33) Normethadone; (34) Norpipanone; (35) PEPAP (1-(2-phenylethyl)-4-phenyl-4-acetoxypiperidine); (36) Phenadoxone; (37) Phenampromide; (38) Phenomorphan; (39) Phenoperidine; (40) Piritramide; (41) Proheptazine; (42) Properidine; (43) Propiram; (44) Racemoramide; (45) Tilidine; (46) Trimeperidine; (47) U-47700; or (48) Fentanyl derivatives and analogues: (A) Unless specifically excepted, listed in another schedule, or contained within a pharmaceutical product approved by the United States food and drug administration, any material, compound, mixture, or preparation, including its salts, isomers, esters, or ethers, and salts of isomers, esters, or ethers, whenever the existence of such salts is possible within any of the following specific chemical designations containing a 4-anilidopiperidine structure: (i) With or without substitution at the carbonyl of the aniline moiety with alkyl, alkenyl, carboalkoxy, cycloalkyl, methoxyalkyl, cyanoalkyl, or aryl groups, or furanyl, dihydrofuranyl, benzyl moiety, or rings containing heteroatoms sulfur, oxygen, or nitrogen; (ii) With or without substitution at the piperidine amino moiety with a phenethyl, benzyl, alkylaryl (including heteroaromatics), alkyltetrazolyl ring, or an alkyl or carbomethoxy group, whether or not further substituted in the ring or group; (iii) With or without substitution or addition to the piperdine ring to any extent with one or more methyl, carbomethoxy, methoxy, methoxymethyl, aryl, allyl, or ester groups; (iv) With or without substitution of one or more hydrogen atoms for halogens, or methyl, alkyl, or methoxy groups, in the aromatic ring of the anilide moiety; (v) With or without substitution at the alpha or beta position of the piperidine ring with alkyl, hydroxyl, or methoxy groups; (vi) With or without substitution of the benzene ring of the anilide moiety for an aromatic heterocycle; or (vii) With or without substitution of the piperidine ring for a pyrrolidine ring, perhydroazepine ring, or azepine ring; and (B) The application of subdivision (b)(48)(A) includes, but is not limited to, any of the following: (i) Acetylfentanyl (N-(1-phenethylpiperidin-4-yl)-N-phenylacetamide); (ii) Acetyl-alpha-methylfentanyl (N-[1-(1-methyl-2-phenethyl)-4-piperidnyl]-N-phenyl-acetamide); (iii) Acryl fentanyl (N-(1-phenethylpiperidin-4-yl)-N-phenylacrylamide); (iv) Alpha-methylfentanyl (N-[1-(alpha-methyl-beta-phenyl)ethyl-4-piperidyl]propionanilide; 1-(1-methyl-2-phenylethyl)-4
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