| Stardog |
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| 09/04/04 09:49 AM |
 Re: Busted in a huge way! WARNING TO YOU ALL, PLS
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Ummm..you didnt mention if you were buying controlled meds or not. what your saying may not apply to those of us who dont buy controlled substances. i get tramadol from IOPs which is a non-controled substance. i dont buy xanax, other opioids or anything that is a controlled substance. were you getting controlled stuff?
Tone --
Someone may have already told you this - but tramadol is a controled substance. It is a schedule 4 controled substance. Last I heard, Xanax was also a schedule 4 controled substance along with Valium and Ativan and ambien. Hydrocodone is a schedule 3 drug while oxycodone is a schedule 2. So while tramadol is not as highly scheduled of a drug as some others, is is indeed a controled drug.
homeworker
Tramadol is NOT a federally scheduled drug. It is an opioid, and after the introduction of tramadol in the USA, a federal surveillance program was set up to collect reports of tramadol abuse from doctors and hospitals. The data so far indicate that less than 0.1% of patients prescribed tramadol abuse it.
It was not initially scheduled because tests on rodents and humans concurred that it is not a likely drug of abuse. In the short term, it does not have reinforcing properties, though patients with a history of drug abuse may be more prone to abuse it.
I don't think there's a movement to schedule it, either. Soma, or carisoprodol, on the other hand, likely WILL be federally scheduled within the decade.
Hydrocodone by itself is Schedule II, but when compounded with a certain amount of non-opioid analgesics, the formula gets put in Schedule III.
Instead of wading through the GPO, you can go here to find the exact guidelines (though note that this was before buprenorphine was rescheduled from V to III):
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/schedule.pdf
