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TCA 39-17-410

Controlled substances in Schedule III

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This statute lists the specific drugs classified in Schedule III, which generally include certain opioids with lower strength, some barbiturates, and depressants with legitimate medical purposes but meaningful abuse risk.

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(a) Schedule III 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 39-17-402Narcotic drug: means any of the following, 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: (A) Opium and opiate, and any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation of opium or opiate. See Tennessee Code 39-17-402Person: means an individual, corporation, governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association or any other legal entity. See Tennessee Code 39-17-402Services: includes labor, skill, professional service, transportation, telephone, mail, gas, electricity, steam, water, cable television, entertainment subscription service or other public services, accommodations in hotels, restaurants or elsewhere, admissions to exhibitions, use of vehicles or other movable property, and any other activity or product considered in the ordinary course of business to be a service, regardless of whether it is listed in this subdivision (a)(38) or a specific statute exists covering the same or similar conduct. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105(b) 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, including its salts, isomers (whether optical, positional, or geometric), and salts of such isomers whenever the existence of such salts, isomers, and salts of isomers is possible within the specific chemical designation: (1) Those compounds, mixtures, or preparations in dosage unit form containing any stimulant substances listed in Schedule II, which compounds, mixtures, or preparations were listed on August 25, 1971, as excepted compounds under 21 C.F.R. § 1308.32, and any other drug of the quantitative composition shown in that list for those drugs or that is the same except that it contains a lesser quantity of controlled substances; (2) Benzphetamine; (3) Clorphentermine; (4) Clortermine; or (5) Phendimetrazine. (c) Depressants, 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 depressant effect on the central nervous system: (1) Any compound, mixture, or preparation containing: (A) Amobarbital; (B) Secobarbital; (C) Pentobarbital; or any salt thereof and one (1) or more other active medicinal ingredients that are not listed in any schedule; (2) Any suppository dosage form containing: (A) Amobarbital; (B) Secobarbital; (C) Pentobarbital; or any salt of these drugs and approved by the federal food and drug administration for marketing only as a suppository; (3) Any substance that contains any quantity of a derivative of barbituric acid or any salt thereof. Examples include the following drugs: (A) Aprobarbital; (B) Butabarbital (secbutabarbital); (C) Butalbital; (D) Butobarbital (butethal); (E) Talbutal; (F) Thiamylal; (G) Thiopental; or (H) Vinbarbital; (4) Chlorhexadol; (5) Embutramide; (6) Gamma hydroxybutyric acid preparations. Any drug product containing gamma hydroxybutyric acid, including its salts, isomers, and salts of isomers, for which an application is approved under § 505 of the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act ( 21 U.S.C. § 301 et seq.); (7) Ketamine, its salts, isomers, and salts of isomers Other name: (±)-2-(2-chlorophenyl)-2-(methylamino)-cyclohexanone; (8) Lysergic acid; (9) Lysergic acid amide; (10) Methyprylon; (11) Perampanel, and its salts, isomers, and salts of isomers; (12) Sulfondiethylmethane; (13) Sulfonethylmethane; (14) Sulfonmethane; or (15) Tiletamine and zolazepam or any salt of tiletamine or zolazepam: (A) Other name for a tiletamine-zolazepam combination product: Telazol®; (B) Other name for tiletamine: 2-(ethylamino)-2-(2-thienyl)-cyclohexanone; and (C) Other names for zolazepam: 4-(2-fluorophenyl)-6,8-dihydro-1,3,8-trimethylpyrazolo[3,4-e],[1,4]-diazepin-7(1H)-one; flupyrazapon. (d) Nalorphine. (e) Narcotic drugs, unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, means: (1) 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: (A) Not more than 1.8 grams of codeine per 100 milliliters or not more than 90 mi
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