In 1970, the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) was signed into law as part of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act by President Richard Nixon. This was created to help with the U.S. drug policy by providing regulations about the different types of drugs and by allowing for the classification of drugs into different schedules. According to §811(b) of the CSA, drugs are classified according to eight different factors. This includes the actual and potential for abuse, the evidence of pharmacological effect, the current scientific knowledge about the drug, the history of abuse with the drug, the scope and duration of abuse, the risk to public health the drug poses, the liability of dependency and whether or not the drug is a precursor of a drug already listed within the CSA.

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Schedule III includes drugs with a potential for abuse that is lessened than Schedule I and II, a drug with an accepted medical use and dugs which may lead to moderate physical dependency and / or high psychological dependency – examples include codeine, anabolic steroids and ketamine. Schedule IV includes drugs with a low potential for abuse compared to the higher schedules, a drug that has a currently accepted medicinal use and drugs with limited dependency – examples include antidiarrheal drugs, Xanax and Valium. Finally, there are Schedule V which includes drugs which have a low potential for abuse, a currently accepted medical use and limited possibility for dependence – examples of this include cough suppressants and Lyrica.