WAC 246-887-170   Schedule IV.  The board finds that the following substances have a low potential for abuse relative to substances in Schedule III and have currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States and that the abuse of the substances may lead to limited physical dependence or psychological dependence relative to the substances in Schedule III. The board, therefore, places each of the following substances in Schedule IV.

     (a) The drugs and other substances listed in this section, by whatever official name, common or usual name, chemical name, or brand name designated, are included in Schedule IV.

     (b) Narcotic drugs. Unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, 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:

     (1) Not more than 1 milligram of difenoxin and not less than 25 micrograms of atropine sulfate per dosage unit.

     (2) Dextropropoxyphene (alpha-(+)-e-dimethylamino-1,2-diphenyl-3-methyl-2 propionoxybutane).

     (c) Depressants. Unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, any material, compound, mixture, or preparation which contains any quantity of the following substances, including its salts, isomers, and salts of isomers whenever the existence of such salts, isomers, and salts of isomers is possible within the specific chemical designation:

     (1) Alprazolam;

     (2) Barbital;

     (3) Bromazepam;

     (4) Camazepam;

     (5) Chloral betaine;

     (6) Chloral hydrate;

     (7) Chlordiazepoxide;

     (8) Clobazam;

     (9) Clonazepam;

     (10) Clorazepate;

     (11) Clotiazepam;

     (12) Cloxazolam;

     (13) Delorazepam;

     (14) Diazepam;

     (15) Estazolam;

     (16) Ethchlorvynol;

     (17) Ethinamate;

     (18) Ethyl loflazepate;

     (19) Fludiazepam;

     (20) Flunitrazepam;

     (21) Flurazepam;

     (22) Halazepam;

     (23) Haloxazolam;

     (24) Ketazolam;

     (25) Loprazolam;

     (26) Lorazepam;

     (27) Lormetazepam;

     (28) Mebutamate;

     (29) Medazepam;

     (30) Meprobamate;

     (31) Methohexital;

     (32) Methylphenobarbital (mephobarbital);

     (33) Midazolam;

     (34) Nimetazepam;

     (35) Nitrazepam;

     (36) Nordiazepam;

     (37) Oxazepam;

     (38) Oxazolam;

     (39) Paraldehyde;

     (40) Petrichloral;

     (41) Phenobarbital;

     (42) Pinazepam;

     (43) Prazepam;

     (44) Quazepam;

     (45) Temazepam;

     (46) Tetrazepam;

     (47) Triazolam;

     (48) Zolpidem.

     (d) Fenfluramine. Any material, compound, mixture, or preparation which contains any quantity of the following substances, including its salts, isomers (whether optical, position or geometric), and salts of such isomers, whenever the existence of such salts, isomers and salts of isomers is possible.

     (e) Stimulants. Unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, any material, compound, mixture, or preparation which contains any quantity of the following substances having a stimulant effect on the central nervous system, including its salts, isomers (whether optical, position, 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) Cathine ((+) - norpseudoephedrine);

     (2) Diethylpropion;

     (3) Fencamfamin;

     (4) Fenproporex;

     (5) Mazindol;

     (6) Mefenorex;

     (7) Pemoline (including organometallic complexes and chelates thereof);

     (8) Phentermine;

     (9) Pipradrol;

     (10) SPA ((-)-1-dimethylamino-1, 2-dephenylethane.

     (f) Other substances. Unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, any material, compound, mixture, or preparation which contains any quantity of the following substances, including its salts:

     (1) Pentazocine;

     (2) Butorphanol.



[98-02-084 § 246-887-170, filed 1/7/98, effective 1/7/98. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005. 94-08-098, § 246-887-170, filed 4/6/94, effective 5/7/94; 92-04-029 (Order 239B), § 246-887-170, filed 1/28/92, effective 2/29/92. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.64.005 and chapter 18.64A RCW. 91-18-057 (Order 191B), recodified as § 246-887-170, filed 8/30/91, effective 9/30/91. Statutory Authority: RCW 69.50.201. 89-17-023 (Order 226), § 360-36-440, filed 8/8/89, effective 9/8/89. Statutory Authority: RCW 69.50.201, 69.50.203, 69.50.205, 69.50.207, 69.50.209 and 69.50.211. 84-22-062 (Order 190), § 360-36-440, filed 11/7/84.]


NOTES:

     Reviser's note:  Under RCW 69.50.221 (2)(e), the above section was not adopted under the Administrative Procedure Act, chapter 34.05 RCW, but was published in the Washington State Register and codified into the Washington Administrative Code exactly as shown by the agency filing with history notes added by the code reviser's office.