Texas Health and Safety Code - Drugs
Schedule II Drugs - ✔️✔️-Have a high tendency for abuse, may have an excepted
medical use, and can produce dependency or addiction with chronic use.
-This schedule includes examples such as cocaine, opium, morphine, fentanyl,
amphetamines, and methamphetamines.
-These drugs may be available with a prescription by a physician, but not all pharmacies
may carry them.
-These drugs require more stringent records and storage procedures then drugs in
Schedules III and IV
Schedule III Drugs - ✔️✔️-These drugs have less potential for abuse or addiction then
drugs and the first two schedules and have a currently excepted medical use.
-Examples of this schedule of drugs includes anabolic steroids, codeine, ketamine,
hydrocodone with asprin, and hydrocodone with acetaminophen.
-These drugs may be available with a prescription, but not all pharmacies may carry
them
Schedule IV Drugs - ✔️✔️-These drugs have a low potential for abuse, have a
currently accepted medical use, has a low chance for addiction or limited addictive
properties.
-Examples of the schedule of drugs include valium, xanax, phenobarbital, and rohypnol
(commonly known as the "date rape" drug).
-These drugs may be available with a prescription, but not all pharmacies may carry
them.
Schedule I Drugs - ✔️✔️-Have a high tendency for abuse and have no excepted
medical use.
-This schedule includes drugs such as marijuana, heroin, ecstasy, LSD, and GHB.
-Pharmacies do not sell these drugs, and they are not available with a prescription by
physician.
Schedule V Drugs - ✔️✔️-These drugs have a lower chance of abuse then Schedule
IV drugs, have a currently excepted medical use in the US, and lesser chance or side
effects of dependents compared to Schedule IV drugs.
-This schedule include such drugs as cough suppressant with codeine.
-This schedule of drugs is regulated, but generally does not require a prescription.
______________ means a device or a drug that is unsafe for self-medication and that is
not included in Schedules I through V or Penalty Groups 1 through 4 of Chapter 481
(Texas Controlled Substances Act). The term includes a device or a drug that bears or
is required to bear the legend:
, (A) "Caution: federal law prohibits dispensing without prescription" or "Rx only" or
another legend that complies with federal law; or
(B) "Caution: federal law restricts this drug to use by or on the order of a licensed
veterinarian." - ✔️✔️Dangerous Drug
____________ means a substance, including a drug, an adulterant, and a dilutant,
listed in Schedules I through V or Penalty Group 1, 1-A, 2, 2-A, 3, or 4.
-The term includes the aggregate weight of any mixture, solution, or other substance
containing a controlled substance.
-In the broadest definition, this is anything who's manufacture, distribution, and so on is
limited by regulation - ✔️✔️Controlled Substance
________________ means to directly apply a controlled substance by injection,
inhalation, ingestion, or other means to the body of a patient or research subject by:
(A) a practitioner or an agent of the practitioner in the presence of the practitioner; or
(B) the patient or research subject at the direction and in the presence of a practitioner.
- ✔️✔️Administer
__________________________ means:
(A) a substance with a chemical structure substantially similar to the chemical structure
of a controlled substance in Schedule I or II or Penalty Group 1, 1-A, 2, or 2-A; or
(B) a substance specifically designed to produce an effect substantially similar to, or
greater than, the effect of a controlled substance in Schedule I or II or Penalty Group 1,
1-A, 2, or 2-A. - ✔️✔️Controlled substance analogue
_____________________ means a controlled substance that, without authorization,
bears or is in a container or has a label that bears an actual or simulated trademark,
trade name, or other identifying mark, imprint, number, or device of a manufacturer,
distributor, or dispenser other than the person who in fact manufactured, distributed, or
dispensed the substance. - ✔️✔️Counterfeit substance
______________ means to transfer, actually or constructively, to another a controlled
substance, counterfeit substance, or drug paraphernalia, regardless of whether there is
an agency relationship. The term includes offering to sell a controlled substance,
counterfeit substance, or drug paraphernalia. - ✔️✔️Deliver
______________ means the delivery of a controlled substance in the course of
professional practice or research, by a practitioner or person acting under the lawful
order of a practitioner, to an ultimate user or research subject. The term includes the
prescribing, administering, packaging, labeling, or compounding necessary to prepare
the substance for delivery. - ✔️✔️Dispense
____________ means to deliver a controlled substance other than by administering or
dispensing the substance. - ✔️✔️Distribute
Schedule II Drugs - ✔️✔️-Have a high tendency for abuse, may have an excepted
medical use, and can produce dependency or addiction with chronic use.
-This schedule includes examples such as cocaine, opium, morphine, fentanyl,
amphetamines, and methamphetamines.
-These drugs may be available with a prescription by a physician, but not all pharmacies
may carry them.
-These drugs require more stringent records and storage procedures then drugs in
Schedules III and IV
Schedule III Drugs - ✔️✔️-These drugs have less potential for abuse or addiction then
drugs and the first two schedules and have a currently excepted medical use.
-Examples of this schedule of drugs includes anabolic steroids, codeine, ketamine,
hydrocodone with asprin, and hydrocodone with acetaminophen.
-These drugs may be available with a prescription, but not all pharmacies may carry
them
Schedule IV Drugs - ✔️✔️-These drugs have a low potential for abuse, have a
currently accepted medical use, has a low chance for addiction or limited addictive
properties.
-Examples of the schedule of drugs include valium, xanax, phenobarbital, and rohypnol
(commonly known as the "date rape" drug).
-These drugs may be available with a prescription, but not all pharmacies may carry
them.
Schedule I Drugs - ✔️✔️-Have a high tendency for abuse and have no excepted
medical use.
-This schedule includes drugs such as marijuana, heroin, ecstasy, LSD, and GHB.
-Pharmacies do not sell these drugs, and they are not available with a prescription by
physician.
Schedule V Drugs - ✔️✔️-These drugs have a lower chance of abuse then Schedule
IV drugs, have a currently excepted medical use in the US, and lesser chance or side
effects of dependents compared to Schedule IV drugs.
-This schedule include such drugs as cough suppressant with codeine.
-This schedule of drugs is regulated, but generally does not require a prescription.
______________ means a device or a drug that is unsafe for self-medication and that is
not included in Schedules I through V or Penalty Groups 1 through 4 of Chapter 481
(Texas Controlled Substances Act). The term includes a device or a drug that bears or
is required to bear the legend:
, (A) "Caution: federal law prohibits dispensing without prescription" or "Rx only" or
another legend that complies with federal law; or
(B) "Caution: federal law restricts this drug to use by or on the order of a licensed
veterinarian." - ✔️✔️Dangerous Drug
____________ means a substance, including a drug, an adulterant, and a dilutant,
listed in Schedules I through V or Penalty Group 1, 1-A, 2, 2-A, 3, or 4.
-The term includes the aggregate weight of any mixture, solution, or other substance
containing a controlled substance.
-In the broadest definition, this is anything who's manufacture, distribution, and so on is
limited by regulation - ✔️✔️Controlled Substance
________________ means to directly apply a controlled substance by injection,
inhalation, ingestion, or other means to the body of a patient or research subject by:
(A) a practitioner or an agent of the practitioner in the presence of the practitioner; or
(B) the patient or research subject at the direction and in the presence of a practitioner.
- ✔️✔️Administer
__________________________ means:
(A) a substance with a chemical structure substantially similar to the chemical structure
of a controlled substance in Schedule I or II or Penalty Group 1, 1-A, 2, or 2-A; or
(B) a substance specifically designed to produce an effect substantially similar to, or
greater than, the effect of a controlled substance in Schedule I or II or Penalty Group 1,
1-A, 2, or 2-A. - ✔️✔️Controlled substance analogue
_____________________ means a controlled substance that, without authorization,
bears or is in a container or has a label that bears an actual or simulated trademark,
trade name, or other identifying mark, imprint, number, or device of a manufacturer,
distributor, or dispenser other than the person who in fact manufactured, distributed, or
dispensed the substance. - ✔️✔️Counterfeit substance
______________ means to transfer, actually or constructively, to another a controlled
substance, counterfeit substance, or drug paraphernalia, regardless of whether there is
an agency relationship. The term includes offering to sell a controlled substance,
counterfeit substance, or drug paraphernalia. - ✔️✔️Deliver
______________ means the delivery of a controlled substance in the course of
professional practice or research, by a practitioner or person acting under the lawful
order of a practitioner, to an ultimate user or research subject. The term includes the
prescribing, administering, packaging, labeling, or compounding necessary to prepare
the substance for delivery. - ✔️✔️Dispense
____________ means to deliver a controlled substance other than by administering or
dispensing the substance. - ✔️✔️Distribute
