Schedules of Controlled Substances: Placement of Sibutramine Into Schedule IV

With the issuance of this final rule, the Acting Deputy Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) places the substance, sibutramine, including its salts and optical isomers, into Schedule IV of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). As a result of this rule, the regulatory controls and criminal sanctions of Schedule IV will be applicable to the manufacture, distribution, importation and exportation of sibutramine and products containing sibutramine.