This article lists the Schedule 4 substances with a description of the drug.
A Schedule 4 Substance is;
- A substance that has a low potential for abuse relative to substances in schedule 3.
- A substance that has currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.
- Abuse of the substance may lead to limited physical dependence or psychological dependence relative to the substances in schedule 3.
Controlled Substances included in Schedule 4:
Any material, compound, mixture, or preparation containing any quantity of the following substances having a potential for abuse associated with a depressant effect on the central nervous system, including their salts, isomers, and salts of isomers if the existence of the salts, isomers, and salts of isomers is possible within the specific chemical designation:
- Barbital – Barbiturate, long acting sedative and sleep inducing
- Chloral Betaine – Sedative-hypnotic drug
- Chloral Hydrate – Sedative-hypnotic drug
- Chlordiazepoxide – Sedative
- Clonazepam – – Sedative, used to treat anxiety
- Clorazepate – Sedative
- Dextropropoxyphene – analgesic in the opioid category
- Diazepam – Sedative
- Ethchlorvynol – Sedative
- Ethinamate – Sedative, used to treat insomnia
- Flunitrazepam – benzodiazepine, known as Rohypnol
- Flurazepam – Sedative
- Lorazepam – Sedative
- Mebutamate – Sedative
- Meprobamate – Anxiolytic
- Methohexital – Anesthetic
- Methylphenobarbital – Sedative, used as an anticonvulsant
- Oxazepam – Sedative
- Paraldehyde – Sedative
- Petrichloral – Sedative
- Phenobarbital – Barbituate
- Prazepam – Benzodiazepine
Any material, compound, mixture, or preparation containing any quantity of the following substances having a potential for abuse associated with an effect on the central nervous system, including their salts, optical, positional, or geometric isomers, and salts of the isomers if the existence of the salts, isomers, and salts of isomers is possible: