The controlled substance schedules is a five category system that was established as a result of the 1970 Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act (Levinthal, 2016). Schedule 1 and 2 are drugs that have the highest potential for abuse. Schedule 1 drugs are illegal, but schedule 2 through 5 can all be purchased legally through prescriptions or non-prescriptions (Levinthal, 2016). An example of a schedule 1 drug is heroin; schedule 2 is oxycodone, and schedule 3 is codeine. Examples of schedule 4 are sleep medications, and schedule 5 is cough medicine containing codeine (Levinthal, 2016). Because people have found ways to abuse some prescription medicine the DEA issued a rule in 2007 that only allowed practitioners to provide an
