Texas Health and Safety Code – Drugs Exam
Questions And Answers 2025 Update.
Schedule I Drugs - Answer✔-Have a high tendency for abuse and have no excepted medical use.
-This schedule includes drugs such as marijuana, heroin, ecstasy, LSD, and GHB.
-Pharmacies do not sell these drugs, and they are not available with a prescription by physician.
Schedule II Drugs - Answer✔-Have a high tendency for abuse, may have an excepted medical
use, and can produce dependency or addiction with chronic use.
-This schedule includes examples such as cocaine, opium, morphine, fentanyl, amphetamines,
and methamphetamines.
-These drugs may be available with a prescription by a physician, but not all pharmacies may
carry them.
-These drugs require more stringent records and storage procedures then drugs in Schedules III
and IV
Schedule III Drugs - Answer✔-These drugs have less potential for abuse or addiction then drugs
and the first two schedules and have a currently excepted medical use.
-Examples of this schedule of drugs includes anabolic steroids, codeine, ketamine, hydrocodone
with asprin, and hydrocodone with acetaminophen.
-These drugs may be available with a prescription, but not all pharmacies may carry them
Schedule IV Drugs - Answer✔-These drugs have a low potential for abuse, have a currently
accepted medical use, has a low chance for addiction or limited addictive properties.
-Examples of the schedule of drugs include valium, xanax, phenobarbital, and rohypnol
(commonly known as the "date rape" drug).
-These drugs may be available with a prescription, but not all pharmacies may carry them.
Schedule V Drugs - Answer✔-These drugs have a lower chance of abuse then Schedule IV drugs,
have a currently excepted medical use in the US, and lesser chance or side effects of
dependents compared to Schedule IV drugs.
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-This schedule include such drugs as cough suppressant with codeine.
-This schedule of drugs is regulated, but generally does not require a prescription.
______________ means a device or a drug that is unsafe for self-medication and that is not
included in Schedules I through V or Penalty Groups 1 through 4 of Chapter 481 (Texas
Controlled Substances Act). The term includes a device or a drug that bears or is required to
bear the legend:
(A) "Caution: federal law prohibits dispensing without prescription" or "Rx only" or another
legend that complies with federal law; or
(B) "Caution: federal law restricts this drug to use by or on the order of a licensed veterinarian."
- Answer✔Dangerous Drug
____________ means a substance, including a drug, an adulterant, and a dilutant, listed in
Schedules I through V or Penalty Group 1, 1-A, 2, 2-A, 3, or 4.
-The term includes the aggregate weight of any mixture, solution, or other substance containing
a controlled substance.
-In the broadest definition, this is anything who's manufacture, distribution, and so on is limited
by regulation - Answer✔Controlled Substance
________________ means to directly apply a controlled substance by injection, inhalation,
ingestion, or other means to the body of a patient or research subject by:
(A) a practitioner or an agent of the practitioner in the presence of the practitioner; or
(B) the patient or research subject at the direction and in the presence of a practitioner. -
Answer✔Administer
__________________________ means:
(A) a substance with a chemical structure substantially similar to the chemical structure of a
controlled substance in Schedule I or II or Penalty Group 1, 1-A, 2, or 2-A; or
(B) a substance specifically designed to produce an effect substantially similar to, or greater
than, the effect of a controlled substance in Schedule I or II or Penalty Group 1, 1-A, 2, or 2-A. -
Answer✔Controlled substance analogue
_____________________ means a controlled substance that, without authorization, bears or is
in a container or has a label that bears an actual or simulated trademark, trade name, or other
identifying mark, imprint, number, or device of a manufacturer, distributor, or dispenser other
than the person who in fact manufactured, distributed, or dispensed the substance. -
Answer✔Counterfeit substance
______________ means to transfer, actually or constructively, to another a controlled
substance, counterfeit substance, or drug paraphernalia, regardless of whether there is an
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