TCA 39-17-408
Controlled substances in Schedule II
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This statute lists the specific drugs classified in Schedule II, which include powerful painkillers and stimulants like certain opioids and amphetamines that have legitimate medical uses but high abuse potential.
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(a) Schedule II 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 39-17-402Immediate precursor: means a substance that the commissioner of mental health and substance abuse services, upon the agreement of the commissioner of health, has found to be and by rule designates as being the principal compound commonly used or produced primarily for use, and that is an immediate chemical intermediary used or likely to be used in the manufacture of a controlled substance, the control of which is necessary to prevent, curtail, or limit manufacture. See Tennessee Code 39-17-402Opiate: means any substance having an addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine or being capable of conversion into a drug having addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability. See Tennessee Code 39-17-402Opium poppy: means the plant of the species papaver somniferum 1, except its seeds. See Tennessee Code 39-17-402Poppy straw: means all parts, except the seeds, of the opium poppy after mowing. 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) Substances, vegetable origin or chemical synthesis, unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, means any of the following substances whether produced directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of vegetable origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis: (1) Opium and opiate, and any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation of opium or opiate excluding apomorphine, dextrorphan, thebaine-derived butorphanol, nalmefene, nalbuphine, naloxone, and naltrexone, and their respective salts, but including the following: (A) Codeine; (B) Dihydroetorphine; (C) Ethylmorphine; (D) Etorphine hydrochloride; (E) Granulated opium; (F) Hydrocodone; (G) Hydromorphone; (H) Metopon; (I) Morphine; (J) Opium extracts; (K) Opium fluid; (L) Oripavine; (M) Oxycodone; (N) Oxymorphone; (O) Powdered opium; (P) Raw opium; (Q) Thebaine; or (R) Tincture of opium; (2) Any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation thereof that is chemically equivalent or identical with any of the substances referred to in subdivision (b)(1), except that these substances shall not include the isoquinoline alkaloids of opium; (3) Opium poppy and poppy straw; (4) Coca leaves and any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation of coca leaves (including cocaine and ecgonine and their salts, isomers, derivatives, and salts of isomers and derivatives), and any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation thereof that is chemically equivalent or identical with any of these substances, except that the substances shall not include decocainized coca leaves or extraction of coca leaves, which extractions do not contain cocaine or ecgonine; or (5) Concentrate of poppy straw (the crude extract of poppy straw in either liquid, solid, or powder form that contains the phenanthrene alkaloids of the opium poppy). (c) Opiates, unless specifically excepted or unless in another schedule, means any of the following opiates, including its 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, dextrorphan and levopropoxyphene excepted: (1) Alfentanil; (2) Alphaprodine; (3) Anileridine; (4) Bezitramide; (5) Carfentanil; (6) Dextropropoxyphene (bulk, non-dosage forms); (7) Dihydrocodeine; (8) Diphenoxylate; (9) Fentanyl; (10) lsomethadone; (11) Levo-alphacetylmethadol Other names: levo-alpha-acetylmethadol; levomethadyl acetate; LAAM; (12) Levomethorphan; (13) Levorphanol; (14) Metazocine; (15) Methadone; (16) Methadone-Intermediate; 4-cyano-2-dimethylamino-4,4-diphenyl butane; (17) Moramide-lntermediate; diphenylpropane-carboxylic acid; 2-methyl-3-morpholino-1,1-Pethidine (meperidine); (18) Pethidine (meperidine); (19) Pethidine-Intermediate-A; 4-cyano-1-methyl-4-phenylpiperidine; (20) Pethidine-Intermediate-B; ethyl-4-phenylpiperidine-4-carboxylate; (21) Pethidine-Intermediate-C; 1-methyl-4-phenylpiperidine-4-carboxylic acid; (22) Phenazocine; (23) Piminodine; (24) Racemethorphan; (25) Racemorphan; (26) Remifentanil; (27) Sufentanil; (28) Tapentadol; or (29) Thiafentanil. (d) Stimulants, unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, means any material, compound, mixture, or preparation that contains any quantity of the following substances having a stimulant effect on the central nervous system: (1) Amphetamine, its salts, optical isomers, and salts of its optical isomers;
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