Schedule X
Definition
Psychotropic substances and narcotics notified under the 1945 Rules. Stored under double lock, register retained for two years, copy of prescription retained.
- Instrument
- 1945 Rules under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act
- Covers
- Psychotropic substances and narcotics
- Storage requirement
- Double lock
- Record retention
- Register kept 2 years; prescription copy retained
Common questions
Why does Schedule X require stricter storage than Schedule H?+
Schedule X drugs carry a higher dependence and diversion risk, so the rules add physical security measures like double-lock storage and mandatory long-term record retention on top of the ordinary prescription requirement.
How does a Schedule X register help a forensic investigation?+
The retained register creates a paper trail linking a specific dispensed quantity to a specific prescription and patient, which investigators can cross-check against toxicology findings or suspected diversion.
Related terms
- CDSCO
- Central Drugs Standard Control Organization, headquartered in Delhi, headed by the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI). The federal regulator under the...
- Drugs and Cosmetics Act 1940
- Central statute governing the import, manufacture, sale and distribution of drugs and cosmetics in India. Read with the Drugs and Cosmetics Rules...
- NDPS Act 1985
- India's Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act 1985, the primary statute governing drug offences, establishing small and commercial quantity thresholds that determine...
- Poison Act 1919
- Seventeen-section central statute empowering state governments to notify substances as 'poisons' and to license their sale, possession and import. Still in force.
- Schedule H
- List of prescription drugs under the 1945 Rules; sold only on a registered medical practitioner's prescription. Includes most antibiotics, sedatives, antipsychotics and...
- Schedule H1
- Forty-six substances notified by the 2013 amendment (Drugs and Cosmetics Fourth Amendment Rules, 2013, GSR 588(E) dated 30 August 2013, in force...