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The Chemical Diversion and Trafficking Act of 1988 was an amendment to the Controlled Substances Act to regulate precursor chemicals, essential chemicals, tableting machines, and encapsulating machines by imposing record keeping and import/export reporting requirements on transactions involving these materials. Prior to these restrictions being put in place, the U.S. had been the primary source of chemicals used in South American cocaine manufacture. According to the DEA, the Act sharply reduced these precursor exports and cocaine manufacturers responded by purchasing from chemical suppliers outside the U.S. The U.S. in turn successfully lobbied for inclusion of chemical controls in the 1988United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, which included two Tables of controlled precursors. 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Controlled Substances Act (CSA), Title II of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, is the legal foundation of the United States governments fight against the abuse of drugs and other substances. ... This article is not about the fictional alien race. ... South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Opened for signature December 20, 1988[1] at Vienna Entered into force November 11, 1990[2] Conditions for entry into force 20 ratifications Parties 170[3] The 1988 United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and...
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U.S. Chemical Control (http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/concern/chemical_control.html), DEA.
Diversion cases involve, but are not limited to, physicians who sell prescriptions to drug dealers or abusers, pharmacists who falsify records and subsequently sell the drugs, employees who steal from inventory and falsify orders to cover illicit sales, prescription forgers, and individuals who commit armed robbery of pharmacies and drug distributors.
The ChemicalDiversion and TraffickingAct of 1988 extended the concept of commodity control to those chemicals most often used for the manufacture and synthesis of drugs of abuse.
In 1993 domestic chemical control was strengthened with enactment of the Domestic ChemicalDiversion Control Act, which added a registration requirement for List I chemical handlers, and removed exemptions in order to prevent diversion of methamphetamine precursorchemicals.
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