Tennessee Code Annotated
Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-17-412 (2026)
Controlled substances in Schedule IV
✓ current as of May 2026
- (a) Schedule IV consists of the drugs and other substances, by whatever official name, common or usual name, chemical name, or brand name designated, listed in this section.
- (b) Narcotic drugs, unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, means any material, compound, mixture, or preparation containing any of the following narcotic drugs, or their salts calculated as the free anhydrous base or alkaloid, in limited quantities as set forth below:
- (1) Not more than 1 milligram of difenoxin and not less than 25 micrograms of atropine sulfate per dosage unit; or
- (2) Dextropropoxyphene (alpha-(+)-4-dimethylamino-1,2-diphenyl-3-methyl-2-propionoxybutane).
- (c) Depressants, unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, means any material, compound, mixture, or preparation that contains any quantity of the following substances, including its salts, isomers, and salts of isomers whenever the existence of such salts, isomers, and salts of isomers is possible within the specific chemical designation:
- (1) Alfaxalone;
- (2) Alprazolam;
- (3) Barbital;
- (4) Bromazepam;
- (5) Camazepam;
- (6) Carisoprodol
Other name: Soma®;
- (7) Chloral betaine;
- (8) Chloral hydrate;
- (9) Chlordiazepoxide;
- (10) Clobazam;
- (11) Clonazepam;
- (12) Clorazepate;
- (13) Clotiazepam;
- (14) Cloxazolam;
- (15) Delorazepam;
- (16) Diazepam;
- (17) Dichloralphenazone;
- (18) Estazolam;
- (19) Eszopiclone;
- (20) Ethchlorvynol;
- (21) Ethinamate;
- (22) Ethyl loflazepate;
- (23) Fludiazepam;
- (24) Flunitrazepam;
- (25) Flurazepam;
- (26) Fospropofol;
- (27) Halazepam;
- (28) Haloxazolam;
- (29) Ketazolam;
- (30) Loprazolam;
- (31) Lorazepam;
- (32) Lormetazepam;
- (33) Mebutamate;
- (34) Medazepam;
- (35) Meprobamate;
- (36) Methohexital;
- (37) Methylphenobarbital (mephobarbital);
- (38) Midazolam;
- (39) Nimetazepam;
- (40) Nitrazepam;
- (41) Nordiazepam;
- (42) Oxazepam;
- (43) Oxazolam;
- (44) Paraldehyde;
- (45) Petrichloral;
- (46) Phenobarbital;
- (47) Pinazepam;
- (48) Prazepam;
- (49) Quazepam;
- (50) Suvorexant;
- (51) Temazepam;
- (52) Tetrazepam;
- (53) Tramadol
Other names: Ultram® and Ultracet®;
- (54) Triazolam;
- (55) Zaleplon;
- (56) Zolpidem; or
- (57) Zopiclone.
- (d) Fenfluramine means any material, compound, mixture, or preparation that contains any quantity of the following substances, including its salts, isomers (whether optical, positional, or geometric), and salts of isomers, whenever the existence of such salts, isomers, and salts of isomers is possible:
- (1) Fenfluramine; or
- (2) Dexfenfluramine.
- (e) Lorcaserin means any material, compound, mixture, or preparation that contains any quantity of the following substances, including its salts, isomers, and salts of such isomers, whenever the existence of such salts, isomers, and salts of isomers is possible:
- (1) Lorcaserin.
- (f) Stimulants, unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, means any material, compound, mixture, or preparation that contains any quantity of the following substances having a stimulant effect on the central nervous system, including its salts, isomers, and salts of isomers:
- (1) Cathine ((+)-norpseudoephedrine);
- (2) Diethylpropion;
- (3) Fencamfamin;
- (4) Fenproporex;
- (5) Mazindol;
- (6) Mefenorex;
- (7) Modafinil;
- (8) Pemoline (including organometallic complexes and chelates thereof);
- (9) Phentermine;
- (10) Pipradol;
- (11) Sibutramine; or
- (12) SPA ((-)-1-dimethylamino-1,2-diphenylethane).
- (g) Other substances. Unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, any material, compound, mixture, or preparation that contains any quantity of the following substances, including its salts:
- (1) Pentazocine;
- (2) Butorphanol (including its optical isomers); or
- (3) Eluxadoline (5-[[[(2S)-2-amino-3-[4-aminocarbonyl)-2,6-dimethylphenyl]-1-oxopropyl][(1S)-1-(4-phenyl-1H-imidazol-2-yl)ethyl]amino]methyl]-2-methoxybenzoic acid) (including its optical isomers) and its salts, isomers, and salts of isomers.
Amended by 2018 Tenn. Acts, ch. 1040,s 8, eff. 7/1/2018.
Amended by 2015 Tenn. Acts, ch. 302,s 4, eff. 7/1/2015.
Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 1; 1997, ch. 107, § 2; 1997, ch. 236, § 1; 1997, ch. 445, § 1; 1998, ch. 868, § 1; 2000, ch. 755, § 1; 2007, ch. 298, §§ 11-13; 2012, ch. 812, § 4.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 6
cases (2 in the last 5 years), 2015–2023 · leading case: State of Tennessee v. Douglas E. Linville (Tenn. Crim. App. 2021).
State of Tennessee v. Douglas E. Linville (Tenn. Crim. App. 2021). “First, the jury convicted the Defendant in count three for his possession of Xanax, which is a Schedule IV controlled substance, see T.C.A. § 39-17-412(a), (b). However, the judgment form reflects that he was convicted of possessing a Schedule III controlled substance.”
State of Tennessee v. Obada D. Abujaber (Tenn. Crim. App. 2016). “” Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-17-418 (a). Alprazolam and diazepam are both Schedule IV controlled substances.”
Brandon Washington v. State of Tennessee (Tenn. Crim. App. 2018). “Tenn. Code Ann. §§ 39-17-412 , -415, -417.”
State of Tennessee v. Eugene Bernard Cuddy, III (Tenn. Crim. App. 2015). “T.C.A. § 39-17-412(c)(1). The possession of Alprazolam for resale is a Class D felony.”
State of Tennessee v. Anthony Eugene Barnett (Tenn. Crim. App. 2019). “§ 39-17-412(c)(2). The evidence adduced at trial established that, upon stopping the defendant for speeding, Trooper Miller observed a baggy containing marijuana and pills in the floorboard of the defendant’s truck.”
State of Tennessee v. Lori Anne Pierce (Tenn. Crim. App. 2023). “As relevant to this case, it is also unlawful for a person to “possess with intent to deliver” any “drug paraphernalia, knowing, or under circumstances where one reasonably should know, that it will be used to . . . process, prepare, test, .”
— Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-17-412(a) — 1 case
State of Tennessee v. Douglas E. Linville (Tenn. Crim. App. 2021). “First, the jury convicted the Defendant in count three for his possession of Xanax, which is a Schedule IV controlled substance, see T.C.A. § 39-17-412(a), (b). However, the judgment form reflects that he was convicted of possessing a Schedule III controlled substance.”
— Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-17-412(c)(1) — 1 case
State of Tennessee v. Eugene Bernard Cuddy, III (Tenn. Crim. App. 2015). “T.C.A. § 39-17-412(c)(1). The possession of Alprazolam for resale is a Class D felony.”
— Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-17-412(c)(2) — 3 cases
State of Tennessee v. Douglas E. Linville (Tenn. Crim. App. 2021). “First, the jury convicted the Defendant in count three for his possession of Xanax, which is a Schedule IV controlled substance, see T.C.A. § 39-17-412(a), (b). However, the judgment form reflects that he was convicted of possessing a Schedule III controlled substance.”
State of Tennessee v. Anthony Eugene Barnett (Tenn. Crim. App. 2019). “§ 39-17-412(c)(2). The evidence adduced at trial established that, upon stopping the defendant for speeding, Trooper Miller observed a baggy containing marijuana and pills in the floorboard of the defendant’s truck.”
State of Tennessee v. Lori Anne Pierce (Tenn. Crim. App. 2023). “As relevant to this case, it is also unlawful for a person to “possess with intent to deliver” any “drug paraphernalia, knowing, or under circumstances where one reasonably should know, that it will be used to . . . process, prepare, test, .”
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