13. Health & Safety Code - Controlled Substance Act Flashcards
A substance, including a drug, an adulterant, and a dilutant.
Controlled substance
To directly apply a controlled substance by injection, inhalation, ingestion, or other means to the body of a patient or subject.
Administer
A substance with a chemical structure substantially similar to the chemical structure of a controlled substance or specifically designed to produce an effect substantially similar to, or greater than, the effect if a controlled substance.
Controlled substance analogue
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.
Counterfeit substance
To transfer, actually or constructively, to another a controlled substance, counterfeit substance, or drug paraphernalia, regardless of whether there is an agency relationship.
Deliver
The delivery of a controlled substance in the course of professional practice or research, by a practitioner or person acting under lawful order of a practitioner, to an ultimate user or research subject.
Dispense
To deliver a controlled substance other than by administering or dispensing the substance.
Distribute
A substance, other than a device or a component, part, or accessory of a device.
Drug
Equipment, a product, or material that is used or intended for use in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, preparing, testing, analyzing, packaging, repackaging, storing, containing, or concealing a substance in violation of this chapter or in injecting, ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing into the human body a controlled substance in violation of this chapter.
Drug paraphernalia
The injection, inhalation, ingestion, or application of a substance to or into a human body.
Human consumption
A substance the director finds to be and by rule designates as being a principal compound, a substance that is an immediate chemical intermediary, or a substance which is necessary to prevent, curtail, or limit the manufacture of a controlled substance.
Immediate precursor
The production, preparation, propagation, compounding, conversion, or processing of a controlled substance other than marihuana, directly or indirectly by extraction from substance of natural origin, independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction chemical synthesis, and includes the packaging of the substance or labeling or relabeling of its container.
Manufacture
The plant Cannabis sativa L., whether growing or not, the seeds of that plant, and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of that plant or its seeds.
Marihuana
Any of the following, produced directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of vegetable origin, independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis: opium or opiates, opium poppy and poppy straw, cocaine, coca leaves.
Narcotic drug
A substance that has an addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine or is capable of conversion into a drug having addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability.
Opiate
An individual, corporation, government, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, or any other legal entity.
Person
Actual care, custody, control, or management.
Possession
The manufacturing, planting, cultivating, growing, or harvesting of a controlled substance.
Production
The Six Major Categories of Controlled Substances
1) Narcotics
2) Depressants
3) Stimulants
4) Hallucinogens
5) Marihuana
6) Simulated Controlled Substances
Penalty Group 1
- Heroine
- Cocaine
- Meth
Penalty Group 1A
Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)
Penalty Group 2
- Ecstasy
- Hash
- Mushrooms
- Bath Salts
Penalty Group 2A
*Spice
Penalty Group 3
- Alprazolam
- Clonazepam
- Peyote
- Steroids
A device or drug that is unsafe for self-medication.
Dangerous drug
Methods of Drug Abuse
- Injection
- Inhalation
- Ingestion
- Interview prospective informants
- Consult with affected officials
- Establish informants in administrating reports to include an administrative code number
- Provide for method if payments and documantation
Procedures for Qualifying and Utilizing Informants
Methods of Conducting Surveillance
- Moving (most effective)
* Stationary
Equipment used when conducting clandestine drug investigations.
- TIVEC Suit
- Rubber Gloves
- Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA)
Common places of concealment on the person:
- Clothing
- Body Cavities
- Belts
- Shoes
- Hair
- Under Arms
- Taped to Body
Common places of concealment in places:
- Furniture
- Toilet tanks
- Closets
- Refrigerator/freezer
- Cabinets
- Under sinks and drains
- Waste basket
- Food canisters
Common places for concealment in vehicles:
- Glove box
- Under dash
- Under carpet
- Gas tanks
- Hub caps
- Headliner
- A/C duct
- Trunk
- Consoles
- Door panels
- Spare tire
- Engine compartment
- Ash tray
Typical characteristics of drug smugglers:
- Extended travel without luggage
- Luggage carried on back seat
- Appears nervous upon contact with officer
Vehicles used as load cars for narcotics:
- Reliable with large capacity
- False compartments in interior and exterior
- Uneven trim
- Tampered lugs or screws and bolts
- Not registered to driver
- Driver does not know who’s vehicle
