Phenethylamines

Question 1

What is a stimulant?

Answer 1

A stimulant is a class of psychoactive drugs that promote activity in the brain and body such as caffeine

Question 2

What does a schedule I drug mean?

Answer 2

A schedule I drug is a drug with no accepted medical use that has a high potential for abuse with use potentially leading to a dependence

Question 3

What does a schedule II drug mean?

Answer 3

A schedule II drug is a drug with some accepted medical use that has a high potential for abuse and with use potentially leading to a dependency

Question 4

What is methamphetamine?

Answer 4

Methamphetamine is a schedule II stimulant

Question 5

What schedule is methamphetamine?

Answer 5

Schedule II

Question 6

Are there legal forms of methamphetamine?

Answer 6

Yes

Question 7

Is it possible my client could have had a prescription for methamphetamine and this could be legal?

Answer 7

I do not have any knowledge of your clients prescription history however prescription methamphetamine is typically found as a tablet not as a liquid or crystalline material

Question 8

Could this methamphetamine be from an inhaler?

Answer 8

I do not have knowledge about how this methamphetamine was synthesized

Question 9

I see your report says “or isomer thereof” what does that mean?

Answer 9

The technique used cannot differentiate isomers which are structural similar compounds. This means that I was able to identify the controlled substance present but not the specific isomer that the controlled substance is.

Question 10

What does a sampling plan on an item mean? How do you do a sampling plan?

Answer 10

A sampling plan on an item means that a statistical analysis was done on the method to ensure that an accurate representation of the population as a whole without analyzing all of the contents. It is done by following a hypergeometric model to determine the amount needed to be tested and then randomly selecting that amount from the entire population

Question 11

What does “there is a 95% confidence that at least 90% of the 500 tablets contain methamphetamine “ mean?

Answer 11

This means that based off our statistical model we are able to make a statistical inference that 95% of the time of the 500 tablets at least 90% of them do contain methamphetamine. If less than 90% of the 500 tablets are negative statistically we would have found at least 1 of the negatives 95% of the time

Question 12

Why did you only analyze 1 tablet out of 100 in this case?

Answer 12

It is our policy to only analyze 1 tablet and if more testing is required and requests then we do so at that point