DEA application

[Code99]

Hi , I am applying for DEA as an anesthesiologist in the online application which drug schedule I should check I,II,III,IV,V

Your help is appreciated

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[Surfer]

check everything EXCEPT schedule I. you won't be prescribing cocaine, and the DEA won't give you a license anyways.

 

[Arch Guillotti]

Yeah IIRC unless you want a license to legally deal heroin don't bother with schedule I.

 

[ssmallz]

Yeah IIRC unless you want a license to legally deal heroin don't bother with schedule I.

But thats where the benjamins are at yo

 

[pgg]

check everything EXCEPT schedule I. you won't be prescribing cocaine, and the DEA won't give you a license anyways.

Cocaine's a II, has legit uses.

 

[periopdoc]

The DEA schedules

• Schedule I - high abuse potential, no medicinal value (in the eyes of the DEA) This is all the stuff we don't prescribe but some of our friends think/ wish that we do/ did. Marijuana, Heroin, Peyote, Mescaline, LSD, GHB, and my personal favorite Thebacon. What the H***? I can't prescribe Thebacon? I don't know what it is, but I can think of a few of my patients that would go ape if I prescribed Thebacon for them.
  
  
• Schedule II - high abuse potential with severe physical or psychological dependence, but defined medicinal value. Codeine, Cocaine, Morphine, Methadone, Methamphetamine etc.
  
  
• Schedule III - less abuse potential with moderate-low physical or high psychological dependence. Anabolic steroids, Thiopental, Buprenorphine, some of the low dose codeine/ morphine combination products.
  
  
• Schedule IV - low potential for abuse with limited physical or psychological dependence. Alprazolam, diazepam, lorazepam, modafinil, zolpidem
  
  
• Schedule V - low potential for abuse with limited physical or psychological dependence. Codeine preparations - 200 mg/100 ml etc.

Note that these are the DEA definitions and thus do not have to make logical sense. IMHO the schedule IV benzos have a higher abuse potential than most of the schedule III stuff, and we are all aware of the arguments for medical utilization of marijuana.

All you need as an anesthesiologist is Schedule II-V. I assume you would need schedule I if you wanted to prescribe med marijuana, but I am not sure.

- pod

 

[MTGas2B]

I'm fairly sure schedule I is only for research or industrial stuff. Medical weed is still illegal at the federal level, selective enforcement is only reason its been allowed to flourish at the state level.

 

[coprolalia]

check everything EXCEPT schedule I. you won't be prescribing cocaine, and the DEA won't give you a license anyways.

If you haven't applied topical cocaine hydrochloride prior to an awake nasotracheal intubation, you're missing out on a significantly cool residency experience.

-copro

 

[Code99]

Thank you guys...this thread is awesome