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218A.090 Schedule III controlled substances.
Unless otherwise rescheduled by regulation of the Cabinet for Health and Family
Services, the controlled substances listed in this section are included in Schedule III:
(1) Unless listed in another schedule, any material, compound, mixture, or preparation
which contains any quantity of the following substances having a potential for abuse
associated with a depressant effect on the central nervous system: Any substance
which contains any quantity of a derivative of barbituric acid, or any salt of a
derivative of barbituric acid; chlorhexadol; glutethimide; lysergic acid; lysergic acid
amide; methyprylon; sulfondiethylmethane; sulfonethylmethane; sulfonmethane.
(2) Nalorphine.
(3) Pentazocine (parenteral or injectable form only).
(4) Any material, compound, mixture, or preparation containing limited quantities of
any of the following narcotic drugs, or any salts thereof:
(a) Not more than one and four-fifths (1.8) grams of codeine, or any of its salts,
per one hundred (100) milliliters or not more than ninety (90) milligrams per
dosage unit, with an equal or greater quantity of an isoquinoline alkaloid of
opium;
(b) Not more than one and four-fifths (1.8) grams of codeine, or any of its salts,
per one hundred (100) milliliters or not more than ninety (90) milligrams per
dosage unit, with one (1) or more active nonnarcotic ingredients in recognized
therapeutic amounts;
(c) Not more than three hundred (300) milligrams of dihydrocodeinone, or any of
its salts, per one hundred (100) milliliters or not more than fifteen (15)
milligrams per dosage unit, with a fourfold or greater quantity of an
isoquinoline alkaloid of opium;
(d) Not more than three hundred (300) milligrams of dihydrocodeinone, or any of
its salts, per one hundred (100) milliliters or not more than fifteen (15)
milligrams per dosage unit, with one (1) or more active, nonnarcotic
ingredients in recognized therapeutic amounts;
(e) Not more than one and four-fifths (1.8) grams of dihydrocodeine, or any of its
salts, per one hundred (100) milliliters or not more than ninety (90) milligrams
per dosage unit, with one (1) or more active, nonnarcotic ingredients in
recognized therapeutic amounts;
(f) Not more than three hundred (300) milligrams of ethylmorphine, or any of its
salts per one hundred (100) milliliters or not more than fifteen (15) milligrams
per dosage unit, with one (1) or more ingredients in recognized therapeutic
amounts;
(g) Not more than five hundred (500) milligrams of opium per one hundred (100)
milliliters or per one hundred (100) grams, or not more than twenty-five (25)
milligrams per dosage unit, with one (1) or more active, nonnarcotic
ingredients in recognized therapeutic amounts;
(h) Not more than fifty (50) milligrams of morphine, or any of its salts, per one
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hundred (100) milliliters or per one hundred (100) grams with one (1) or more
active, nonnarcotic ingredients in recognized therapeutic amounts.
(i) The Cabinet for Health and Family Services may except by regulation any
compound, mixture, or preparation containing any stimulant or depressant
substance listed in subsection (1) from the application of all or any part of this
chapter if the compound, mixture, or preparation contains one (1) or more
active medicinal ingredients not having a stimulant or depressant effect on the
central nervous system, and if the admixtures are included therein in
combinations, quantity, proportion, or concentration that vitiate the potential
for abuse of the substances which have a stimulant or depressant effect on the
central nervous system.
Any material, compound, mixture, or preparation containing any quantity of any of
the following anabolic steroid substances, or any isomer, ester, salt, or derivative
thereof:
(a) Boldenone;
(b) Clostebol;
(c) Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone;
(d) Drostanolone;
(e) Ethylestrenol;
(f) Fluoxymesterone;
(g) Formebulone;
(h) Mesterolone;
(i) Methandienone;
(j) Methandriol;
(k) Methenolone;
(l) Methyltestosterone;
(m) Mibolerone;
(n) Nandrolone;
(o) Norethandrolone;
(p) Oxandrolone;
(q) Oxymesterone;
(r) Oxymetholone;
(s) Stanolone;
(t) Stanozolol;
(u) Testolactone;
(v) Testosterone; and
(w) Trenbolone.
This section shall not apply to any material, compound, mixture, or preparation
containing any quantity of an anabolic steroid substance, or any isomer, ester, salt,
or derivative thereof that is expressly intended for administration through implant to
livestock or other nonhuman species, and that is approved by the United States
Food and Drug Administration for such use.
Effective: June 20, 2005
History: Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 534, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended
1998 Ky. Acts ch. 426, sec. 477, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1992 Ky. Acts
ch. 441, sec. 4, effective July 14, 1992. -- Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 160, sec. 1,
effective July 13, 1990. -- Amended 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 161, sec. 2, effective July 15,
1980. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 74, Art. VI, sec. 107(3). -- Created 1972 Ky.
Acts ch. 226, sec. 10.
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