Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970
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Richard M. Nixon on October 27, 1970 |
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The Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970,
The Controlled Substances Act (CSA), Title II of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, is the legal foundation of the government's fight against the abuse of drugs and other substances. This law is a consolidation of numerous laws regulating the manufacture and distribution of narcotics, stimulants, depressants, hallucinogens, anabolic steroids, and chemicals used in the illicit production of controlled substances. The act also provides a mechanism for substances to be controlled, added to a schedule, decontrolled, removed from control, rescheduled, or transferred from one schedule to another.[2]
Proceedings to add, delete, or change the schedule of a drug or other substance may be initiated by the
The DEA also may begin an investigation of a drug at any time based upon information received from law enforcement laboratories, state and local law enforcement and regulatory agencies, or other sources of information.
Once the DEA has collected the necessary data, the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Association, by authority of the Attorney General, requests from the HHS a scientific and medical evaluation and recommendation as to whether the drug or other substance should be controlled or removed from control. This request is sent to the Assistant Secretary of Health of the HHS. Then, the HHS solicits information from the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and evaluations and recommendations from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and on occasion, from the scientific and medical community. The Assistant Secretary, by authority of the Secretary, compiles the information and transmits back to the DEA a medical and scientific evaluation regarding the drug or other substance, a recommendation as to whether the drug should be controlled, and in what schedule it should be placed.
The medical and scientific evaluations are binding to the DEA with respect to scientific and medical matters. The recommendation on scheduling is binding only to the extent that if HHS recommends that the substance not be controlled, the DEA may not control the substance.
Once the DEA has received the scientific and medical evaluation from HHS, the Administrator will evaluate all available data and make a final decision whether to propose that a drug or other substance be controlled and into which schedule it should be placed.
The CSA also creates a closed system of distribution for those authorized to handle controlled substances. The cornerstone of this system is the registration of all those authorized by the DEA to handle controlled substances. All individuals and firms that are registered are required to maintain complete and accurate inventories and records of all transactions involving
See also
References
- ^ Electronic prescribing of controlled substances [electronic resource]: addressing health care and law enforcement priorities: hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, December 4, 2007. United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. 2008.
- PMID 26281634.
- ^ Painter, J. Marcus (March–April 2015). "Real Property, Trust, and Estate Law: Rents, Refi's, and Reefer Madness". GP Solo. 32 (2).
External links
- Full text of CDAPCA: 1970 version | Current version
- Nixon, Richard M. (October 27, 1970). "389: Remarks on Signing the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 - October 27, 1970". Internet Archive. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Service. pp. 948–949.