The term Narcotics in this Act refers to those narcotic drugs and their derivative products that are habit-forming, cause abusive usage, and are a danger to society, and other substances and their products that affect psychological behavior.
The narcotics are divided into four categories based on their extent of causing habitual usage, abusive usage, and danger to the society. The categories and their items are described as follows:
1.Category one: Heroin, Morphine, Opium, Cocaine, and their derivative products (as shown in Appendix 1).
2.Category two: Opium poppy, Coca,
Cannabis, Amphetamines, Pethidine, Pentazocine, and their derivative products (as shown in Appendix 2).
3.Category 3: Secobarbital, Amobarbital, Nalorphine, and their derivative products (as shown in Appendix 3).
4.Category 4: Allobarbital, Alprazolam, and their derivative products (as shown in Appendix 4).
The categories and items described in the preceding Paragraph are to be assessed every three months by the review committee as set up by the Ministry of Justice in conjunction with the Ministry of Health and Welfare. The review committee shall assess those narcotic drugs and their derivative products that are habit-forming, cause abusive usage, and are a danger to society, and other such substances and their products that affect psychological behavior, as well as those substances with chemical structures that are similar to these drugs, substances or their derivative products. After this review and approval, the assessment results are to be reported to the Executive Yuan for revision, addition, deletion and promulgation, and then forwarded to the Legislative Yuan for reference.
The management of narcotics and their derivative products as used for medical and scientific purposes, as well as substances that affect psychological behavior and their products, is regulated under separate provisions.