Alabama § 20-2-25 - Schedule II - Listing of Controlled Substances.

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§ 20-2-25. Schedule II - Listing of Controlled Substances.

The controlled substances listed in this section are included in Schedule II:

(1) Any of the following substances, except those narcotic drugs listed in other schedules, whether produced directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of vegetable origin or independently by means of chemical synthesis or by combination of extraction and chemical synthesis:

a. Opium and opiate and any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation of opium or opiate.

b. Any salt, compound, isomer, derivative, or preparation thereof which is chemically equivalent or identical with any of the substances referred to in paragraph a, but not including the isoquinoline alkaloids of opium.

c. Opium poppy and poppy straw.

d. Coca leaves and any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation of coca leaves and any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation thereof which is chemically equivalent or identical with any of these substances, but not including decocainized coca leaves or extractions which do not contain cocaine or ecgonine.

e. Phenibut and any salt, sulfate, free acid, or other preparation of phenibut, and any salt, sulfate, free acid, compound, derivative, precursor, or preparation thereof that is chemically equivalent or identical with phenibut.

(2) Any of the following opiates, including their isomers, esters, ethers, salts, and salts of isomers, whenever the existence of these isomers, esters, ethers, and salts is possible within the specific chemical designation:

a. Alphaprodine;

b. Anileridine;

c. Bezitramide;

d. Dihydrocodeine;

e. Diphenoxylate;

f. Fentanyl;

g. Isomethadone;

h. Levomethorphan;

i. Levorphanol;

j. Metazocine;

k. Methadone;

l. Methadone - Intermediate, 4-cyano-2-dimethylamino-4, 4-diphenyl butane;

m. Moramide - Intermediate, 2-methyl-3-morpholino-1, 1-diphenyl-propane-carboxylic acid;

n. Pethidine;

o. Pethidine - Intermediate-A, 4-cyano-l-methyl-4-phenylpiperidine;

p. Pethidine - Intermediate-B, ethyl-4-phenylpiperidine-4-carboxylate;

q. Pethidine - Intermediate-C, 1-methyl-4-phenylpiperidine-4-carboxylic acid;

r. Phenazocine;

s. Piminodine;

t. Racemethorphan;

u. Racemorphan.

Source: official Alabama text · Last verified 2026-08-27

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