"Alabama Continues Efforts to Make Alprazolam a Schedule II Drug"

As an update to our January 9, 2017 blog post, the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) has continued with its efforts to make Alprazolam a Schedule II drug, along with rescheduling all other benzodiazepines from Schedule IV to Schedule III. The rule change would also reschedule pregabalin from Schedule V to Schedule IV and reschedule zolpidem from Schedule IV to Schedule III. The proposed rule was passed by the State Committee of Public Health and is currently scheduled to be effective on June 15, 2017.

But don’t change your systems yet. Because the rule change has not yet undergone legislative review, it is possible that the committee could vote against the rule, send it back to the state committee for reconsideration, or change the effective date.

We will provide an update when the legislative committee takes action. Read more in our alert.