Re: What is phase four?

[Guest guest]

I was wondering the same. Am thinking that maybe it has to do with drug

coverage under medicare?

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> What are these " phases " people are talking about? This isn't an obstacle I

have hit ...YET lol

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[Guest guest]

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> What are these " phases " people are talking about? This isn't an obstacle I

have hit ...YET lol

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Could the original poster actually have meant " Schedule " and not phase?

Drugs in the U.S. are classified by " Schedule " in the legal system. It has

nothing to do with actual medical use of prescriptions, except for the federal

regulations involved with the different classifications that regulate the

dipsensing of them through pharmacies.

Schedule 1 drugs are those that are illegal and have absolutely no medical

application, such as cocaine. Schedule 2 drugs include narcotics and other

drugs that have medical application but can be dangerously abused, so they are

much more tightly regulated. As you go down through the schedule numbers, you

go through meds that are less dangerous, less likely to be abused, less tightly

regulated until you reach over-the-counter medications at the lowest level

(which is also the highest schedule number).

[Guest guest]

Medications are qualified in " Schedules " not Phases. To explain this to you

quickly here's how it goes;

Schedule I Drugs - Have a high tendency for abuse, and have no accepted medical

use. This schedule includes: Heroin, Ecstasy, LSD, Marijuana, etc.

Schedule II Drugs - Have a high tendency for abuse, may have an accepted medical

use, and can produce dependency or addiction with chronic use. This schedule

includes examples like: Cocaine, Opium, Morphine, Fentanyl, Amphetamines, etc.

Schedule III Drugs - Have less potential for abuse or addiction than drugs in

the first two schedules, and have a currently accepted medical use. Examples of

Schedule III Drugs are: Ketamine, Anabolic Steroids, Codeine, etc.

Schedule IV Drugs - Have a low potential for abuse, have a currently accepted

medical use, has a low chance of addiction or limited addictive properties.

Drugs on that schedule are: Valium, Xanax, Phenobarbital, etc.

Schedule V Drugs - Have a low potential for abuse, have a currently accepted

medical use, and a lesser chance or side effects of dependence compared to

schedule IV Drugs. Some of the drugs included in this schedule are: Cough

suppressants with codeine, etc.

And this is a little history on how this schedule thing started.

The Controlled Substances Act (CSA) was enacted into law by the Congress of the

United States as Title II of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control

Act of 1970.[1]

The CSA is the federal U.S. drug policy under which the manufacture,

importation, possession, use and distribution of certain substances is

regulated. The Act also served as the national implementing legislation for the

Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs.

The legislation created five Schedules (classifications), with varying

qualifications for a substance to be included in each. Two federal agencies, the

Drug Enforcement Administration and the Food and Drug Administration, determine

which substances are added or removed from the various schedules, though the

statute passed by Congress created the initial listing.

Classification decisions are required to be made on criteria including potential

for abuse (an undefined term)[2][3], currently accepted medical use in treatment

in the United States, and international treaties.

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> What are these " phases " people are talking about? This isn't an obstacle I

have hit ...YET lol