A Schedule II drug is one that has a medical use but it may have a high potential for abuse which may lead to serve psychological or physical dependence.ProfX wrote: ↑Sat Aug 20, 2022 8:07 pm Fentanyl is a Schedule II drug. What that means, BTW, is in its "street" form, as a recreational drug, it's illegal. The source of the street sh*t is China ultimately, they just are using Mexico as a way station to get it into the U.S.
It still has authorized medical uses and you can have a prescription for it. (In that case it's legal.) Very unusual these days.
https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/fentanyl
Yeah, it is now the leading cause of opioid overdose deaths in the country.
https://medicalboard.iowa.gov/sites/def ... 180301.pdf
You have two types of Fentanyl; pharmaceutical grade and street grade. Pharmaceutical grade Fentanyl is made to specific standards while who knows what street grade Fentanyl contains.
I used to be the Controlled Substances custodian for Scheduled Drugs and we had controls in place to account for them. Our pharmacy ordered all their drugs through my office and we'd place the order with the pharmaceutical vendor(s). We'd receive the drugs from the vendor and Schedule I - V drugs were delivered in a locked contained. I, or my alternated, would be notified of the Scheduled Drugs and we'd take them into our walk-in vault, check them in, annotate our manual records, and then process the receipts through our computer. The computer would produce an Issue List of which drugs and their quantities to pull, I'd update the manual records to record the issue, deliver them to the pharmacy and get the pharmacy tech responsible for Schedule !- V drugs or the pharmacist to accept and sign for them. I'd take the signed Issue List back to the vault and file the issue list in a binder.I just want to point out another source of it, besides the border, is unauthorized theft from clinics or hospitals.
In addition to the above, every month a randomly selected officer or Senior NCO from across base would verify both our vault records and pharmacy records against the stock in each department to verify the amount our computer and manual records indicate should be on our shelves. BTW, in my 28 years I never had an error.
Although out system worked, it's not infallible and I know of one incident where the Controlled Substances custodian, at another base, figured a way around it. He was eventually caught, court-martialed, and jailed. Civilian hospitals and clinics have controls but the controls are only as effective as the people who are given the responsibility of safeguarding them. Controls won't prevent theft but they make it harder to steal without someone finding out.
"Who soid it to you?" "He said his name was Bob." They know that.
...cuz I lived off of them.
