The Misuse of Drugs Act 1977, the Misuse of Drugs Act 1984, and the Criminal Justice (Psychoactive Substances) Act 2010 are the acts of the Oireachtas

Oireachtas

The Oireachtas , sometimes referred to as Oireachtas Éireann, is the "national parliament" or legislature of Ireland. The Oireachtas consists of:*The President of Ireland*The two Houses of the Oireachtas :**Dáil Éireann...

 regulating drugs in Ireland

Republic of Ireland

Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...

. The acts define the penalties for unlawful production, possession and supply of drugs.

Regulations

The act provides for the Minister for Health

Minister for Health and Children (Ireland)

The Minister for Health is the senior minister at the Department of Health in the Government of Ireland and is responsible for health care in the Republic of Ireland and related services.The current Minister for Health is James Reilly, TD...

 to make regulations scheduling drugs according to their use perceived medical usability and their risk to the public. Additionally, these regulations outline the requirements for distribution and monitoring of the listed substances. The principal regulations are the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 1988 (SI 328/1988) as amended by the Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Regulations 1993 (SI 342/1993), the Misuse of Drugs (Amendment No. 1) Regulations 1999 (SI 273/1999), the Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (SI 53/2006), the Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (SI 200/2007), the Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) (No. 1) Regulations 2009 (SI 63/2009) and the Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2009 (SI 122/2009).

Schedule 1

The substances (and certain derivatives thereof) considered by the state to have no medicinal or scientific value with consideration given regarding their likelihood of their being abused and thus would be considered illegal drugs.

Substances

• 1-benzylpiperazinc (BZP) (i.e. benzylpiperazine
  Benzylpiperazine
  Benzylpiperazine is a recreational drug with euphoric, stimulant properties. The effects produced by BZP are comparable to those produced by amphetamine. Adverse effects have been reported following its use including acute psychosis, renal toxicity, and seizures...
  
  , added by the 2009 Regulations)
• Bufotenine
• Cannabinol
  Cannabinol
  Cannabinol is a psychoactive substance cannabinoid found in Cannabis sativa and Cannabis indica/afghanica. It is also a metabolite of tetrahydrocannabinol . CBN acts as a weak agonist of the CB1 and CB2 receptors, with lower affinity in comparison to THC.- External links :* Compounds found in...
  
   (except where contained in cannabis or cannabis resin)
• Cannabinol derivatives
• Cannabis
  Cannabis
  Cannabis is a genus of flowering plants that includes three putative species, Cannabis sativa, Cannabis indica, and Cannabis ruderalis. These three taxa are indigenous to Central Asia, and South Asia. Cannabis has long been used for fibre , for seed and seed oils, for medicinal purposes, and as a...
  
   and Cannabis resin (hashish
  Hashish
  Hashish is a cannabis preparation composed of compressed stalked resin glands, called trichomes, collected from the unfertilized buds of the cannabis plant. It contains the same active ingredients but in higher concentrations than unsifted buds or leaves...
  
  )
• Cathinone
  Cathinone
  Cathinone, or Benzoylethanamine, is a monoamine alkaloid found in the shrub Catha edulis and is chemically similar to ephedrine, cathine and other amphetamines. Cathinone induces the release of dopamine from striatal preparations that are prelabelled either with dopamine or its precursors. It is...
  
  
• Coca leaf
• Concentrate of poppy-straw
• Eticyclidine
  Eticyclidine
  Eticyclidine is a dissociative anesthetic drug with hallucinogenic effects. It is similar in effects to phencyclidine but is slightly more potent...
  
  
• Khat
  Khat
  Khat, qat, gat or Waquish Spoken from true Yemeni, is a flowering plant native to tropical East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula....
  
   (being the leaves of Catha edulis (Celastraceae)) (added by 1993 Regulations)
• Lysergamide
• Lysergide (and other N-alkyl derivatives of lysergamide) (i.e. LSD
  LSD
  Lysergic acid diethylamide, abbreviated LSD or LSD-25, also known as lysergide and colloquially as acid, is a semisynthetic psychedelic drug of the ergoline family, well known for its psychological effects which can include altered thinking processes, closed and open eye visuals, synaesthesia, an...
  
  )
• Mescaline
  Mescaline
  Mescaline or 3,4,5-trimethoxyphenethylamine is a naturally occurring psychedelic alkaloid of the phenethylamine class used mainly as an entheogen....
  
  
• Psilocin
  Psilocin
  Psilocin , an aromatic compound, sometimes also spelled psilocine, psilocyn, or psilotsin, is a psychedelic mushroom alkaloid. It is found in most psychedelic mushrooms together with its phosphorylated counterpart psilocybin...
  
  
• Raw opium
  Opium
  Opium is the dried latex obtained from the opium poppy . Opium contains up to 12% morphine, an alkaloid, which is frequently processed chemically to produce heroin for the illegal drug trade. The latex also includes codeine and non-narcotic alkaloids such as papaverine, thebaine and noscapine...
  
  
• Rolicyclidine
  Rolicyclidine
  Rolicyclidine is a dissociative anesthetic drug with hallucinogenic and sedative effects. It is similar in effects to phencyclidine but is slightly less potent and has less stimulant effects instead producing a sedative effect described as being somewhat similar to a barbiturate, but with...
  
  
• Tenocyclidine
  Tenocyclidine
  Tenocyclidine is a dissociative anesthetic drug with stimulant and hallucinogenic effects. It is similar in effects to phencyclidine but is considerably more potent. TCP has slightly different binding properties to PCP, with more affinity for the NMDA receptors, but less affinity for the sigma...
  
  
• N,N-Diethyltryptamine
• N.N-Dimethyltryptamine
• N-(1-Benzyl-4-piperidyl) propionanilide
• N-[1(2-Thenyl)- 4-piperidyl] propionanilide
• 2.5-Dimethoxy-∝, 4-dimethylphenethylamine
• N-Hydroxytenamphetamine" and "4-Methyl-aminorex (added by 1993 Regulations)

Schedule 2

Strictly controlled medicinal products (and derivatives thereof) or drugs used for scientific purposes which have a high likelihood of their being abused. Exemptions are provided to cover legitimate use for professional purposes by doctors, pharmacists, vets etc. and in other specified circumstances.

Substances and products

• Acetorphine
  Acetorphine
  Acetorphine is a potent analgesic drug, up to 8700 times stronger than morphine by weight. It is a derivative of the more well-known opioid etorphine, which is used as a very potent veterinary painkiller and anesthetic medication, primarily for the sedation of large animals such as elephants,...
  
  
• Acetylmethadol
• Alfentanil
  Alfentanil
  Alfentanil is a potent but short-acting synthetic opioid analgesic drug, used for anaesthesia in surgery. It is an analogue of fentanyl with around 1/4 the potency of fentanyl and around 1/3 of the duration of action, but with an onset of effects 4x faster than fentanyl...
  
  
• Allylprodine
  Allylprodine
  Allylprodine is an opioid analgesic that is an analogue of prodine. It was discovered in by Hoffman-La Roche in 1957 during research into the related drug pethidine...
  
  
• Alphacetylmethadol (i.e. Levacetylmethadol
  Levacetylmethadol
  Levacetylmethadol , levomethadyl acetate , Orlaam or levo-α-acetylmethadol is a synthetic opioid similar in structure to methadone. It has a long duration of action due to its active metabolites. It was approved in 1993 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use in the treatment of opioid...
  
  )
• Alphameprodine
• Alphamethadol
• Alphaprodine
• Anileridine
  Anileridine
  Anileridine is a synthetic analgesic drug and is a member of the piperidine class of analgesic agents developed by Merck & Co. in the 1950s...
  
  
• Benzethidine
  Benzethidine
  Benzethidine is a 4-phenylpiperidine derivative that is related to the opioid analgesic drug pethidine .Benzethidine is not currently used in medicine and is a Class A/Schedule I drug which is controlled under UN drug conventions...
  
  
• Benzylmorphine
  Benzylmorphine
  Benzylmorphine is a semi-synthetic opiate narcotic introduced to the international market in 1896 and that of the United States very shortly thereafter...
  
   (3-benzylmorphine)
• Betacetylmethadol
  Betacetylmethadol
  Betacetylmethadol is a synthetic opioid. It is a stereoisomer of both alphacetylmethadol and levacetylmethadol. In the United States, it is a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act....
  
  
• Betameprodine
• Betamethadol
• Betaprodine
• Bezitramide
  Bezitramide
  Bezitramide is a narcotic analgesic. Bezitramide itself is a prodrug which is readily hydrolyzed in the gastrointestinal tract to its main metabolite, despropionyl-bezitramide. Bezitramide was discovered at Janssen Pharmaceutica in 1961...
  
  
• Carfentanil
  Carfentanil
  Carfentanil or carfentanyl is an analogue of the popular synthetic opioid analgesic fentanyl, and is one of the most potent opioids known . Carfentanil was first synthesized in 1974 by a team of chemists at Janssen Pharmaceutica which included Paul Janssen...
  
  
• Clonitazene
  Clonitazene
  Clonitazene is an opioid analgesic of approximately three times the potency of morphine. It is related to etonitazene....
  
  
• Cocaine
  Cocaine
  Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. The name comes from "coca" in addition to the alkaloid suffix -ine, forming cocaine. It is a stimulant of the central nervous system, an appetite suppressant, and a topical anesthetic...
  
  
• Codoxime
  Codoxime
  Codoxime is an opiate analogue that is a derivative of hydrocodone, where the 6-ketone group has been replaced by carboxymethyloxime. It has primarily antitussive effects and was found to have moderate potential to cause dependence in animal studies....
  
  
• Desomorphine
  Desomorphine
  Desomorphine is an opiate analogue invented in 1932 in the United States that is a derivative of morphine, where the 6-hydroxyl group has been removed and the 7,8 double bond has been saturated. It has sedative and analgesic effects, and is around 8-10 times more potent than morphine...
  
  
• Dextromoramide
  Dextromoramide
  Dextromoramide is a powerful opioid analgesic approximately three times more potent than morphine but shorter acting. It is subject to drug prohibition regimes, both internationally through UN treaties, and by the criminal law of individual states...
  
  
• Diampromide
  Diampromide
  Diampromide is an opioid analgesic from the ampromide family of drugs, related to other drugs such as propiram. It was invented in the 1960s, and can be described as a ring-opened analogue of fentanyl....
  
  
• Diethylthiambutene
  Diethylthiambutene
  Diethylthiambutene is an opioid analgesic drug developed in the 1950s which was mainly used as an anesthetic in veterinary medicine and continues, along with the other two thiambutenes dimethylthiambutene and ethylmethylthiambutene to be used for this purpose, particularly in Japan...
  
  
• Difenoxin
  Difenoxin
  Difenoxin is a 4-phenylpiperidine derivative that is related to the opioid analgesic drug pethidine and more distantly related to alphaprodine and piritramide, and it is an active metabolite of the anti-diarrhoea drug diphenoxylate. Difenoxin et al...
  
  
• Dihydromorphine
  Dihydromorphine
  Dihydromorphine is a semi-synthetic opioid invented in Germany in 1900. In structure, it is very similar to morphine, the only difference being the reduction of the double bond between positions 7 and 8 in morphine to a single bond...
  
  
• Dimenoxadole (presumably Dimenoxadol
  Dimenoxadol
  Dimenoxadol , or dimenoxadole , is an opioid analgesic which is a diphenylacetic acid derivative, related to other drugs such as dextropropoxyphene....
  
  )
• Dimepheptanol
  Dimepheptanol
  Dimepheptanol is an opioid analgesic that is an analogue of methadone.Dimepheptanol is a mixture of two isomers, α-methadol and β-methadol. These are also available separately, and this drug has three separate entries in many national and international lists of illegal drugs, which refer to the...
  
  
• Dimethylthiambutene
  Dimethylthiambutene
  Dimethylthiambutene is an opioid analgesic drug, most often used in veterinary medicine in Japan and to a lesser extent in other countries in the region and around the world...
  
  
• Dioxaphetyl butyrate
  Dioxaphetyl Butyrate
  Dioxaphetyl butyrate is an opioid analgesic which is a diphenylacetic acid derivative, related to other open-chain opioid drugs such as dextropropoxyphene, levacetylmethadol , lefetamine and dimenoxadol.It produces similar effects to other opioids, including dependence, euphoria, analgesia,...
  
  
• Diphenoxylate
  Diphenoxylate
  Diphenoxylate is an opioid agonist used for the treatment of diarrhea that acts by slowing intestinal contractions and peristalsis allowing the body to consolidate intestinal contents and prolong transit time, thus allowing the intestines to draw moisture out of them at a normal or higher rate and...
  
  
• Dipipanone
  Dipipanone
  Dipipanone is a strong opioid analgesic drug, used for very severe pain in cases where other analgesics are unsuitable, for instance where morphine is indicated but cannot be used due to the patient being allergic to morphine.-Dosage forms:...
  
  
• Drotebanol
  Drotebanol
  Drotebanol is a morphinan derivative that acts as an opioid agonist. It was invented by Sankyo Company in Japan during the 1970s. It is synthesised from thebaine....
  
  
• Ecgonine
  Ecgonine
  Ecgonine is an organic chemical and tropane alkaloid found naturally in coca leaves. It has a close structural relation to cocaine: it is both a metabolite and a precursor, and as such, it is a controlled substance, as are all known substances which can be used as precursors to ecgonine...
  
   (and any derivative of ecgonine which is convertible to ecgonine or to cocaine)
• Ethylmethylthiambutene
  Ethylmethylthiambutene
  Ethylmethylthiambutene is an opioid analgesic drug from the thiambutene family, around 1.3x the potency of morphine. It is under international control under Schedule I of the UN Single Convention On Narcotic Drugs 1961, presumably due to high abuse potential....
  
  
• Etonitazene
  Etonitazene
  Etonitazene is a potent analgesic drug shown to be approximately 1000–1500x the potency of morphine in animal models but only 60x morphine in man. It is one of several benzimidazole opioids, and is structurally related to clonitazene Etonitazene is a potent analgesic drug shown to be approximately...
  
  
• Etorphine
  Etorphine
  Etorphine is a semi-synthetic opioid possessing an analgesic potency approximately 200 times that of morphine. It was first prepared in 1960 from oripavine, which does not generally occur in opium poppy extract but rather in "poppy straw" and in related plants, Papaver orientale and Papaver...
  
  
• Etoxeridine
  Etoxeridine
  Etoxeridine is a 4-phenylpiperidine derivative that is related to the opioid analgesic drug pethidine ....
  
  
• Fentanyl
• Furethidine
  Furethidine
  Furethidine is a 4-phenylpiperidine derivative that is related to the opioid analgesic drug pethidine .Furethidine is not currently used in medicine and is a Class A/Schedule I drug which is controlled under UN drug conventions. It has similar effects to other opioid derivatives, such as analgesia,...
  
  
• Heroin
• Hydrocodone
  Hydrocodone
  Hydrocodone or dihydrocodeinone is a semi-synthetic opioid derived from either of two naturally occurring opiates: codeine and thebaine. It is an orally active narcotic analgesic and antitussive...
  
  
• Hydromorphinol
  Hydromorphinol
  Hydromorphinol is an opiate analogue that is a derivative of morphine, where the 14-position has been hydroxylated and the 7,8- double bond saturated. It has similar effects to morphine such as sedation, analgesia and respiratory depression, but is more potent and has a steeper dose-response curve...
  
  
• Hydromorphone
  Hydromorphone
  Hydromorphone, a more common synonym for dihydromorphinone, commonly a hydrochloride is a very potent centrally-acting analgesic drug of the opioid class. It is a derivative of morphine, to be specific, a hydrogenated ketone thereof and, therefore, a semi-synthetic drug...
  
  
• Hydroxypethidine
  Hydroxypethidine
  Hydroxypethidine is an opioid analgesic that is an analogue of pethidine . Hydroxypethidine is significantly less potent than meperidine as an analgesic, although it also has NMDA antagonist properties like its close relative ketobemidone.Hydroxypethidine has similar effects to other opioids, and...
  
  
• Isomethadone
• Ketobemidone
  Ketobemidone
  Ketobemidone is a powerful opioid analgesic. Its effectiveness against pain is in the same range as morphine, and it also has some NMDA-antagonist properties imparted by it's metabolite norketobemidone. This makes it useful for some types of pain that don't respond well to other opioids...
  
  
• Levomethorphan
  Levomethorphan
  Levomethorphan is the l-stereoisomer of methorphan. The effects of the two isomers are quite different. Dextromethorphan is an antitussive at low doses and a dissociative at much higher doses, whereas levomethorphan is an opioid analgesic...
  
  
• Levomoramide
  Levomoramide
  Levomoramide is the inactive isomer of the opioid analgesic dextromoramide, invented by the chemist Paul Janssen in 1956. Unlike dextromoramide, which is a potent analgesic with high abuse potential, levomoramide is virtually without activity....
  
  
• Levophenacylmorphan
  Levophenacylmorphan
  Levophenacylmorphan is a morphinan derivative that acts as an opioid agonist. It has potent analgesic effects and is around 10x more potent than morphine. Adverse effects associated with its use are those of the opioids as a whole, including pruritus, nausea, respiratory depression, euphoria and...
  
  
• Levorphanol
  Levorphanol
  Levorphanol is an opioid medication used to treat severe pain. It is the levorotatory stereoisomer of the synthetic morphinan and a pure opioid agonist, first described in Germany in 1948 as an orally active morphine-like analgesic...
  
  
• Lofentanil
  Lofentanil
  Lofentanil is one of the most potent opioid analgesics known and is an analogue of fentanyl, which was developed in 1960. It is most similar to the highly potent opioid carfentanil , only slightly more potent. Lofentanil can be described as 3-methylcarfentanil, or 3-methyl-4-carbomethoxyfentanyl...
  
  
• Medicinal opium
  Opium
  Opium is the dried latex obtained from the opium poppy . Opium contains up to 12% morphine, an alkaloid, which is frequently processed chemically to produce heroin for the illegal drug trade. The latex also includes codeine and non-narcotic alkaloids such as papaverine, thebaine and noscapine...
  
  
• Metazocine
  Metazocine
  Metazocine is an opioid analgesic related to pentazocine. While metazocine has significant analgesic effects, mediated through a mixed agonist-antagonist action at the mu opioid receptor, its clinical use is limited by dysphoric and hallucinogenic effects which are most likely caused by activity at...
  
  
• Methadone
  Methadone
  Methadone is a synthetic opioid, used medically as an analgesic and a maintenance anti-addictive for use in patients with opioid dependency. It was developed in Germany in 1937...
  
  
• Methyldesorphine
  Methyldesorphine
  Methyldesorphine is an opioid analgesic. First synthesized in Germany in 1940 and patented in the USA in 1952, it has a high potential for abuse as with any potent opioid agonist, and is sometimes found along with desomorphine as a component of the home-made opioid mixture known as "Krokodil" used...
  
  
• Methyldihydromorphine
  Methyldihydromorphine
  Methyldihydromorphine is a semi-synthetic opioid drug developed in Germany in 1936, controlled under both domestic law and UN conventions because of its possible potential for abuse...
  
   (6-methyldihydromorphine)
• Metopon
  Metopon
  Metopon is an opiate analogue that is a methylated derivative of hydromorphone which was invented in 1948 as an analgesic....
  
  
• Morpheridine
  Morpheridine
  Morpheridine is a 4-phenylpiperidine derivative that is related to the opioid analgesic drug pethidine...
  
  
• Morpine
• Morphine methobromide (morphine N-oxide and other pentavalent nitrogen morphine derivatives)
• Myrophine
  Myrophine
  Myrophine is an opiate analogue that was developed in 1952. It is a derivative of morphine.Myrophine is substituted with a 3-benzyl group and a 6-myristyl chain. It is metabolised to form benzylmorphine and then further to morphine, and so is a long-acting prodrug for morphine, but with a slow...
  
  
• Nabilone
  Nabilone
  Nabilone is a synthetic cannabinoid with therapeutic use as an antiemetic and as an adjunct analgesic for neuropathic pain. It is a synthetic cannabinoid, which mimics the main ingredient of cannabis...
  
  
• Nicomorphine
  Nicomorphine
  Nicomorphine is the 3,6-dinicotinate ester of morphine. It is a strong opioid agonist analgesic two to three times as potent as morphine with a side effect profile similar to that of dihydromorphine, morphine, and diamorphine. Nicomorphine was patented as Vilan by Lannacher Heilmittel Ges. m.b.H...
  
  
• Noracymethadol
• Norlevorphanol
  Norlevorphanol
  Norlevorphanol is an opioid analgesic of the morphinan class. It was never marketed....
  
  
• Normethadone
  Normethadone
  Normethadone is a cough suppressant. It is a desmethyl derivative of methadone....
  
  
• Normorphine
  Normorphine
  Normorphine is an opiate analogue that is derived from the N-demethylated derivative of morphine first described in the 1950s when a large group of N-substituted morphine analogues were characterized for activity....
  
  
• Norpipanone
• Oxycodone
  Oxycodone
  Oxycodone is an opioid analgesic medication synthesized from opium-derived thebaine. It was developed in 1916 in Germany, as one of several new semi-synthetic opioids in an attempt to improve on the existing opioids: morphine, diacetylmorphine , and codeine.Oxycodone oral medications are generally...
  
  
• Oxymorphone
  Oxymorphone
  Oxymorphone or 14-Hydroxydihydromorphinone is a powerful semi-synthetic opioid analgesic first developed in Germany circa 1914, patented in the USA by Endo Pharmaceuticals in 1955 and introduced to the United States market in January 1959 and other countries around the same time...
  
  
• Pethidine
  Pethidine
  Pethidine or meperidine Pethidine (INN) or meperidine (USAN) Pethidine (INN) or meperidine (USAN) (commonly referred to as Demerol but also referred to as: isonipecaine; lidol; pethanol; piridosal; Algil; Alodan; Centralgin; Dispadol; Dolantin; Mialgin (in Indonesia); Petidin Dolargan (in Poland);...
  
  
• Phenadoxone
  Phenadoxone
  Phenadoxone is an opioid analgesic of the open chain class invented in by Hoechst in 1947...
  
  
• Phenampromide
  Phenampromide
  Phenampromide is an opioid analgesic from the ampromide family of drugs, related to other drugs such as propiram and diampromide. It was invented in the 1960s by American Cyanamid Co....
  
  
• Phenazocine
  Phenazocine
  Phenazocine is an opioid analgesic drug, which is related to pentazocine and has a similar profile of effects....
  
  
• Phencyclidine
  Phencyclidine
  Phencyclidine , commonly initialized as PCP and known colloquially as angel dust, is a recreational dissociative drug...
  
  
• Phenomorphan
  Phenomorphan
  Phenomorphan is an opioid analgesic. It is not currently used in medicine, but has similar side effects to other opiates, which include itching, nausea and respiratory depression....
  
  
• Phenoperidine
  Phenoperidine
  Phenoperidine was discovered by Janssen Pharmacutica 1960. Marketed as its hydrochloride as Operidine or Lealgin, is an opioid used as a general anesthetic. It is a derivative of isonipecotic acid, like pethidine, and is metabolized in part to norpethidine. It is 20-200 times as potent as pethidine...
  
  
• Piminodine
  Piminodine
  Piminodine is an opioid analgesic that is an analogue of pethidine . It was used in medicine briefly during the 1960s and 70s, but has largely fallen out of clinical use. It was used particularly for obstetric analgesia and in dental procedures and, like pethidine, could be combined with...
  
  
• Piritramide
  Piritramide
  Piritramide is a synthetic opioid analgesic with a potency 0.65 to 0.75 times that of morphine. A common starting dose is 15 mg IV, equivalent to 10 mg of morphine hydrochloride. Piritramide is commonly used for the treatment of postoperative pain...
  
  
• Proheptazine
  Proheptazine
  Proheptazine is an opioid analgesic from the phenazepine family. It was invented in the 1960s.Proheptazine produces similar effects to other opioids, including analgesia, sedation, dizziness and nausea....
  
  
• Properidine
  Properidine
  Properidine is an opioid analgesic and the isopropyl analog of pethidine....
  
  
• Racemethorphan
• Racemoramide
  Racemoramide
  Racemoramide , or simply moramide, is a opioid analgesic and a racemic mixture of the substances dextromoramide and levomoramide , two enantiomers of a chiral molecule....
  
  
• Racemorphan
• Sufentanil
  Sufentanil
  Sufentanil is a powerful synthetic opioid analgesic drug, approximately 5 to 10 times more potent than its analog, fentanyl. Sufentanil is marketed for use by specialist centres under different trade names, such as Sufenta and Sufentil...
  
  
• Thebacon
• Thebaine
  Thebaine
  Thebaine , its name coming from the Greek Θῆβαι, Thēbai, an ancient city in Upper Egypt, is an opiate alkaloid. A minor constituent of opium, thebaine is chemically similar to both morphine and codeine, but has stimulatory rather than depressant effects, causing convulsions similar to strychnine...
  
  
• Tilidine
  Tilidine
  Tilidine , or tilidate is a synthetic opioid analgesic, used mainly in Germany, Switzerland and Belgium for treatment of moderate to severe pain, both acute and chronic.-Pharmacology:...
  
  
• Trimeperidine
  Trimeperidine
  Trimeperidine is an opioid analgesic that is an analogue of prodine. It was developed in or around 1954 in the USSR during research into the related drug pethidine....
  
  
• 4-Cyano-2-dimethylamino-4,4-diphenylbutane
• 4-Cyano-1-methyl-4-phenylpiperidine
• 2- Methyl-3-morpholino-1, 1-diphenylpropanecarboxylic acid
• 1-Methyl-4-phenylpiperidine-4-carboxylic acid
• 1-Phenylcyclohexylamine
• 4 Phenylpiperidine-4-carboxylic acid ethyl ester
• 4-(1-Phenylcyclohexyl) morpholine
• 1-Piperidinocyclohexanecarbonitrile
• 1-[1-(2-Thienyl)cyclohexyl] pyrrolidine
• 4-[1-(-2-Thienyl)cyclohexyl]morpholine

Substances

• Acetyldihydrocodeine
  Acetyldihydrocodeine
  Acetyldihydrocodeine is an opiate derivative discovered in Germany in 1914 and was used as as a cough suppressant and analgesic. It is not commonly used, but has activity similar to other opiates...
  
  
• Amphetamine
  Amphetamine
  Amphetamine or amfetamine is a psychostimulant drug of the phenethylamine class which produces increased wakefulness and focus in association with decreased fatigue and appetite.Brand names of medications that contain, or metabolize into, amphetamine include Adderall, Dexedrine, Dextrostat,...
  
  
• Benzphetamine
  Benzphetamine
  Benzphetamine is an anorectic drug marketed under this brand in the USA by Pharmacia. Benzphetamine is used as a short term adjunct in management of exogenous obesity. It is closely related to amphetamine.- Pharmacology :...
  
  
• Buprenorphine
  Buprenorphine
  Buprenorphine is a semi-synthetic opioid that is used...
  
  
• Butorphanol
  Butorphanol
  Butorphanol is a morphinan-type synthetic opioid analgesic developed by Bristol-Myers. Brand name Stadol was recently discontinued by the manufacturer. It is now only available in its generic formulations, manufactured by Novex, Mylan, Apotex and Ben Venue Laboratories. Butorphanol is most...
  
  
• Codeine
  Codeine
  Codeine or 3-methylmorphine is an opiate used for its analgesic, antitussive, and antidiarrheal properties...
  
  
• Dexamphetamine
• Dextropropoxyphene
  Dextropropoxyphene
  Dextropropoxyphene, manufactured by Eli Lilly and Company, is an analgesic in the opioid category. It is intended to treat mild pain and has, in addition, anti-tussive and local anesthetic effects. It has been taken off the market in Europe and the US due to concerns of fatal overdoses and...
  
  
• Dihydrocodeine
  Dihydrocodeine
  Dihydrocodeine, also called DHC, Drocode, Paracodeine and Parzone and known by the brand names of Synalgos DC, Panlor DC, Panlor SS, Contugesic, New Bron Solution-ACE, Huscode, Drocode, Paracodin, Codidol, Didor Continus, Dicogesic, Codhydrine, Dekacodin, DH-Codeine,...
  
  
• Ethylmorphine
  Ethylmorphine
  Ethylmorphine is an opiate narcotic analgesic .Ethylmorphine was invented in Germany at Merck in 1884 and was used as a weaker alternative to heroin for all indications. Chemically, ethylmorphine is a morphine molecule with a -25 group substituted for the aromatic 3- group...
  
   (3-ethylmorphine)
• Fenethylline
  Fenethylline
  Fenethylline, also spelled phenethylline, is a synthetic prodrug used as a stimulant and marketed under the brand name Captagon.-History:...
  
  
• Glutethimide
  Glutethimide
  Glutethimide is a hypnotic sedative that was introduced in 1954 as a safe alternative to barbiturates to treat insomnia. Before long, however, it had become clear that glutethimide was just as likely to cause addiction and caused similarly severe withdrawal symptoms...
  
  
• Lefetamine
  Lefetamine
  Lefetamine is a drug which is a stimulant and also an analgesic with effects comparable to codeine.Lefetamine was invented in the 1930s and showed weak analgetic activity....
  
  
• Mecloqualone
  Mecloqualone
  Mecloqualone is an analogue of methaqualone which was first made in 1960 and marketed mainly in France and some other European countries. It has sedative, hypnotic and anxiolytic properties, and was used for the treatment of insomnia...
  
  
• Methaqualone
  Methaqualone
  Methaqualone is a sedative-hypnotic drug that is similar in effect to barbiturates, a general central nervous system depressant. The sedative-hypnotic activity was first noted by Indian researchers in the 1950s and in 1962 methaqualone itself was patented in the US by Wallace and Tiernan...
  
  
• Methylamphetamine
• Methylphenidate
  Methylphenidate
  Methylphenidate is a psychostimulant drug approved for treatment of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome and narcolepsy. It may also be prescribed for off-label use in treatment-resistant cases of lethargy, depression, neural insult and obesity...
  
  
• Nalbuphine
  Nalbuphine
  Nalbuphine is a semi-synthetic opioid used commercially as an analgesic under a variety of trade names, including Nubain. It is noteworthy in part for the fact that at low dosages, it is found much more effective by women than by men, and may even increase pain in men, leading to its...
  
  
• Nicocodine
• Nicodicodine (6-nicotinoyldihydrocodeine)
• Norcodeine
  Norcodeine
  Norcodeine is an opiate analogue that is the N-demethylated derivative of codeine.Norcodeine has relatively little opioid activity in its own right, but is formed as a metabolite of codeine following ingestion....
  
  
• Phendimetrazine
  Phendimetrazine
  Phendimetrazine is a stimulant drug of the morpholine chemical class used as an appetite suppressant....
  
  
• Phenmetrazine
  Phenmetrazine
  Phenmetrazine is a stimulant drug of the morpholine chemical class that was previously used as an appetite suppressant, but has since been withdrawn from the market...
  
  
• Pholcodine
  Pholcodine
  Pholcodine is a drug which is an opioid cough suppressant . It helps suppress unproductive coughs and also has a mild sedative effect, but has little or no analgesic effects. It is also known as morpholinylethylmorphine....
  
  
• Propiram
  Propiram
  Propiram is a partial mu opioid receptor agonist and weak mu antagonist analgesic from the ampromide family of drugs. It was invented in 1963 in the United Kingdom by Bayer but was not widely marketed, although it saw some limited clinical use, especially in dentistry...
  
  
• Quinalbarbitone
• N-Ethylamphetamine

Schedule 3

Controlled medicinal products (and certain derivatives thereof) have a high likelihood of their being abused. Exemptions are provided to cover legitimate use for professional purposes by doctors, pharmacists, etc. and are frequently prescribed to the public for common ailments.

Substances

• Cathine
  Cathine
  Cathine, also known as d-norpseudoephedrine, is a psychoactive drug of the phenethylamine and amphetamine chemical classes which acts as a stimulant...
  
  
• Chlorphentermine
  Chlorphentermine
  Chlorphentermine is an appetite suppressant of the phenethylamine class. Developed in 1962, it is the 4-chloro derivative of the better known appetite suppressant phentermine, which is still in current use.Chlorphentermine itself is a relatively weak stimulant with little abuse potential, but is...
  
  
• Diethylpropion
• Ethchlorvnol (presumably Ethchlorvynol
  Ethchlorvynol
  Ethchlorvynol is a sedative and hypnotic medication developed by Pfizer in the 1950s. It has been used to treat insomnia, but has been largely superseded and is only offered where an intolerance or allergy to other drugs exists....
  
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• Ethinamate
  Ethinamate
  Ethinamate is a short-acting carbamate-derivative sedative-hypnotic medication used to treat insomnia. Regular use leads to drug tolerance, and it is usually not effective for more than 7 days...
  
  
• Flunitrazepam
  Flunitrazepam
  Flunitrazepam is marketed as a potent hypnotic, sedative, anticonvulsant, anxiolytic, amnestic, and skeletal muscle relaxant drug most commonly known as Rohypnol...
  
   (moved up from Schedule 4 by 1993 Regulations)
• 4-Hydroxybutanoic acid (added by 1993 Regulations)
• Mazindol
  Mazindol
  Mazindol is a stimulant drug of the tetracyclic chemical class which is used as an anorectic. It was developed by Sandoz-Wander in the 1960s- Indications :...
  
  
• Mephentermine
  Mephentermine
  Mephentermine is a cardiac stimulant. It was formerly used in Wyamine nasal decongestant inhalers and before that as a stimulant in psychiatry.It has been used as a treatment for hypotension.-References:...
  
  
• Meprobamate
  Meprobamate
  Meprobamate is a carbamate derivative which is used as an anxiolytic drug...
  
  
• Methyprylone
• Pemoline
  Pemoline
  Pemoline was first synthesized in 1913 but it's activity was not discovered until the 1930s. Under the names it was used as a medication used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and narcolepsy. Under the Convention on Psychotropic Substances, it is a Schedule IV drug...
  
  
• Pentazocine
  Pentazocine
  Pentazocine is a synthetically prepared prototypical mixed agonist-antagonist narcotic drug of the benzomorphan class of opioids used to treat moderate to moderately severe pain...
  
  
• Phentermine
  Phentermine
  Phentermine, a contraction of "phenyl-tertiary-butylamine", is a psychostimulant drug of the phenethylamine class, chemically related to amphetamine. It is used medically as an appetite suppressant....
  
  
• Pipradrol
  Pipradrol
  Pipradrol is a mild central nervous system stimulant that is no longer widely used in most countries due to concerns about its abuse potential, although this is less of a problem than with other stimulants that still are in current use such as methylphenidate...
  
  
• Temazepam
  Temazepam
  Temazepam is an intermediate-acting 3-hydroxy benzodiazepine. It is mostly prescribed for the short-term treatment of sleeplessness in patients who have difficulty maintaining sleep...
  
   (moved up from Schedule 4 by 1993 Regulations)

Substances

• Alprazolam
  Alprazolam
  Alprazolam is a short-acting anxiolytic of the benzodiazepine class of psychoactive drugs. Alprazolam, like other benzodiazepines, binds to specific sites on the GABAA gamma-amino-butyric acid receptor...
  
  
• Bromazepam
  Bromazepam
  Bromazepam is a benzodiazepine derivative drug, patented by Roche in the 1963 and developed clinically in the 1970s...
  
  
• Camazepam
  Camazepam
  Camazepam is a benzodiazepine psychoactive drug which is the dimethyl carbamate ester of temazepam, a metabolite of diazepam...
  
  
• Chlordiazepoxide
  Chlordiazepoxide
  Chlordiazepoxide, is a sedative/hypnotic drug and benzodiazepine. It is marketed under the trade names Angirex, Klopoxid, Librax , Libritabs, Librium, Mesural, Multum, Novapam, Risolid, Silibrin, Sonimen and Tropium.Chlordiazepoxide was the first benzodiazepine to be synthesised and...
  
  
• Clobazam
  Clobazam
  Clobazam , is a drug which is a benzodiazepine derivative. It has been marketed as an anxiolytic since 1975 and an anticonvulsant since 1984...
  
  
• Clonazepam
  Clonazepam
  Clonazepamis a benzodiazepine drug having anxiolytic, anticonvulsant, muscle relaxant, and hypnotic properties. It is marketed by Roche under the trade name Klonopin in the United States and Rivotril in Australia, Brazil, Canada and Europe...
  
  
• Clorazepic Acid
• Clotiazepam
  Clotiazepam
  Clotiazepam is a thienodiazepine drug which is a benzodiazepine analog. The clotiazepam molecule differs from most other benzodiazepines in that the benzene ring has been replaced by a thiophene ring...
  
  
• Cloxazolam
  Cloxazolam
  Cloxazolam Cloxazolam Cloxazolam (marketed under brand name Sepazon, Olcadil (Brazil, Portugal and Spain), Akton (Belgium), Lubalix (Switzerland) is a drug which is a benzodiazepine derivative. Cloxazolam is metabolised into the active metabolite chlordesmethyldiazepam (delorazepam)...
  
  
• Delorazepam
  Delorazepam
  Delorazepam also known as chlordesmethyldiazepam is a drug which is a benzodiazepine and a derivative of desmethyldiazepam. It is marketed in Italy, where it is available under the trade name EN and Dadumir. Delorazepam is also an active metabolite of the benzodiazepine drug cloxazolam...
  
  
• Diazepam
  Diazepam
  Diazepam , first marketed as Valium by Hoffmann-La Roche is a benzodiazepine drug. Diazepam is also marketed in Australia as Antenex. It is commonly used for treating anxiety, insomnia, seizures including status epilepticus, muscle spasms , restless legs syndrome, alcohol withdrawal,...
  
  
• Estazolam
  Estazolam
  Estazolam is a benzodiazepine derivative drug developed by Upjohn in the 1970s. It possesses anxiolytic, anticonvulsant, sedative and skeletal muscle relaxant properties...
  
  
• Ethyl loflazepate
  Ethyl loflazepate
  Ethyl loflazepate is a drug which is a benzodiazepine derivative. It possesses anxiolytic, anticonvulsant, sedative and skeletal muscle relaxant properties...
  
  
• Fencamfamin
• Fenproporex
  Fenproporex
  Fenproporex is a stimulant drug of the phenethylamine and amphetamine chemical classes which was developed in the 1960s. It is used as an appetite suppressant for the treatment of obesity....
  
  
• Fludiazepam
  Fludiazepam
  Fludiazepam was developed by Hoffman-LaRoche in the 1960s and is marketed in Japan and Taiwan in 0.25mg tablets under the brand name Erispan is a drug which is a benzodiazepine derivative and is closely related to diazepam. It exerts its pharmacological properties via enhancement of GABAergic...
  
  
• Flurazepam
  Flurazepam
  Flurazepam is a drug which is a benzodiazepine derivative. It possesses anxiolytic, anticonvulsant, sedative and skeletal muscle relaxant properties. It produces a metabolite with a very long half-life , which may stay in the bloodstream for up to four days...
  
  
• Halazepam
  Halazepam
  Halazepam is a benzodiazepine derivative and is marketed under the brand names Alapryl and Pacinone It is no longer marketed in the United States. It had been marketed under the name Paxipam, but was withdrawn by its manufacturer, Schering Plough, for poor sales. It possesses anxiolytic,...
  
  
• Haloxazolam
  Haloxazolam
  Haloxazolam , is a drug which is a benzodiazepine derivative. It has similar hypnotic properties as the benzodiazepine drugs triazolam, temazepam, and flunitrazepam and as such is indicated for the treatment insomnia...
  
  
• Ketazolam
  Ketazolam
  Ketazolam is a drug which is a benzodiazepine derivative...
  
  
• Loprazolam
  Loprazolam
  Loprazolam marketed under the brand names Dormonoct, Havlane, Sonin, Somnovit, is a drug which is an imidazole benzodiazepine derivative. It possesses anxiolytic, anticonvulsant, sedative and skeletal muscle relaxant properties. It is available in 1 mg tablets...
  
  
• Lorazepam
  Lorazepam
  Lorazepam is a high-potency short-to-intermediate-acting 3-hydroxy benzodiazepine drug that has all five intrinsic benzodiazepine effects: anxiolytic, amnesic, sedative/hypnotic, anticonvulsant, antiemetic and muscle relaxant...
  
  
• Lormetazepam
  Lormetazepam
  Lormetazepam Lormetazepam Lormetazepam (INN, or methyl-lorazepam, is a drug which is a short to intermediate acting 3-hydroxy benzodiazepine derivative. It possesses hypnotic, anxiolytic, anticonvulsant, sedative and skeletal muscle relaxant properties....
  
  
• Medazepam
  Medazepam
  Medazepam is a drug which is a benzodiazepine derivative. It possesses anxiolytic, anticonvulsant, sedative and skeletal muscle relaxant properties....
  
  
• Mefenorex
  Mefenorex
  Mefenorex is a stimulant drug which was used as an appetite suppressant. It is an amphetamine derivative which was developed in the 1970s and used for the treatment of obesity...
  
  
• Midazolam
  Midazolam
  Midazolam is a short-acting drug in the benzodiazepine class developed by Hoffmann-La Roche in the 1970s. The drug is used for treatment of acute seizures, moderate to severe insomnia, and for inducing sedation and amnesia before medical procedures. It possesses profoundly potent anxiolytic,...
  
   (added by 1993 Regulations)
• Nimetazepam
  Nimetazepam
  Nimetazepam is an intermediate-acting hypnotic drug which is a benzodiazepine derivative. It was first synthesized by a team at Hoffmann-La Roche in 1962. It possesses hypnotic, anxiolytic, sedative, and skeletal muscle relaxant properties. Nimetazepam is also an anticonvulsant. It is sold in 5 mg...
  
  
• Nitrazepam
  Nitrazepam
  Nitrazepam is a type of benzodiazepine drug and is marketed in English-speaking countries under the following brand names: Alodorm, Arem, Insoma, Mogadon, Nitrados, Nitrazadon, Ormodon, Paxadorm, Remnos, and Somnite...
  
  
• Nordazepam
  Nordazepam
  Nordazepam , also known as desoxydemoxepam, nordiazepam and desmethyldiazepam, is a 1,4-benzodiazepine derivative. Like other benzodiazepine derivatives, it has anticonvulsant, anxiolytic, muscle relaxant and sedative properties...
  
  
• Oxazepam
  Oxazepam
  Oxazepam , is a drug which is a short to intermediate acting 3-hydroxy benzodiazepine derivative...
  
  
• Oxazolam
  Oxazolam
  Oxazolam is a drug which is a benzodiazepine derivative. It possesses anxiolytic, anticonvulsant, sedative and skeletal muscle relaxant properties. It is a prodrug for desmethyldiazepam....
  
  
• Pinazepam
  Pinazepam
  Pinazepam is a drug which is a benzodiazepine. It possesses anxiolytic, anticonvulsant, sedative and skeletal muscle relaxant properties....
  
  
• Prazepam
  Prazepam
  Prazepam is a benzodiazepine derivative drug developed by Warner-Lambert in the 1960s. It possesses anxiolytic, anticonvulsant, sedative and skeletal muscle relaxant properties. Prazepam is a prodrug for desmethyldiazepam which is an active metabolite of prazepam...
  
  
• Propylhexedrine
  Propylhexedrine
  Propylhexedrine is a stimulant drug related to methamphetamine. It is used mainly to provide temporary symptomatic relief of nasal congestion due to colds, allergies and allergic rhinitis...
  
  
• Pyrovalerone
  Pyrovalerone
  Pyrovalerone is a psychoactive drug with stimulant effects via acting as a norepinephrine-dopamine reuptake inhibitor , and is used for the clinical treatment of chronic fatigue or lethargy and as an anorectic or appetite suppressant for weight loss purposes...
  
  
• Selegiline
  Selegiline
  Selegiline is a drug used for the treatment of early-stage Parkinson's disease, depression and senile dementia. In normal clinical doses it is a selective irreversible MAO-B inhibitor, however in larger doses it loses its specificity and also inhibits MAO-A...
  
   (moved down from Schedule 2 by 1993 Regulations)
• Tetrazepam
  Tetrazepam
  Tetrazepam is a benzodiazepine derivative with anticonvulsant, anxiolytic, hypnotic and muscle relaxant properties...
  
  
• Triazolam
  Triazolam
  Triazolam is a benzodiazepine drug. It possesses pharmacological properties similar to that of other benzodiazepines, but it is generally only used as a sedative to treat severe insomnia...
  
  

Schedule 5

Products containing a relatively small proportion of certain substances listed in schedules 1-4 (e.g. cough medicine

Cough medicine

A cough medicine is a medicinal drug used in an attempt to treat coughing and related conditions. For dry coughs, treatment with cough suppressants may be attempted to suppress the body's urge to cough...

s containing codeine) and are usually administered by a doctor

Physician

A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...

 or pharmacist

Pharmacist

Pharmacists are allied health professionals who practice in pharmacy, the field of health sciences focusing on safe and effective medication use...

.

Schedule 8

Schedule 8 (inserted by the 2007 Regulations) lists the drugs that can be prescribed by a registered nurse

Registered nurse

A registered nurse is a nurse who has graduated from a nursing program at a university or college and has passed a national licensing exam. A registered nurse helps individuals, families, and groups to achieve health and prevent disease...

within schedules 2 and 3 for pain relief in hospitals, palliative care, midwifery and neonatal care in hospital and the particular method of administration of these drugs.