Ep 28 Memorizing DEA Schedule Medications - Memorizing Pharmacy Technician Mnemonics

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Memorizing DEA Schedule Medications - Memorizing Pharmacy Technician Mnemonics

In this episode, I give you five mnemonics to memorize the DEA Schedule Medications

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Hey, welcome to the Memorizing Pharmacology podcast. I’m Tony Guerra. If you ever need to get a hold of me, tonythepharmacist@gmail.com. I’m going to go over a number of mnemonics from the Memorizing Pharmacy Technician Demonic’s book. You can get it in eBook, audiobook or print book on Amazon or Audible.

And what I want to do is make sure that you understand and how to memorize the medications within the five DEA schedules. Let’s start with our first mnemonic C1 drugs and my mnemonic is One Helm H-E-L-M. And with this one, think that you have like one head so One Helm for the C1 medications that will definitely mess with your head. So H is Heroin, E is Ecstasy, L is LSD and M is Marijuana.

If you want to get technical the LSD stands for Lysergic Acid Diethylamide and Marijuana yes it’s legal in some states but the federal classification is still Schedule 1 but there are ways to use it.

Our second group is going to be with Schedule 2 medications and I say it’s Champ Fog. So with this one, I think of a two-time boxing champ and a fog with the medications in DEA Schedule 2. C for Cocaine, I get it Cocaine is illegal but they do use it in some especially Ophthalmic uses. H Hydrocodone and Hydromorphone, A Amphetamine with Emma Barbitol, M Methamphetamine Methadone Methylphenidate, P Pentobarbital and then the Fog part of it Fentanyl Oxycodone and Glutethamide.

So again, it’s Champ Fog Cocaine Hydrocodone Hydromorphone Amphetamine Ammo Barbitol Methamphetamine Methadone Methylphenidate Pentobarbital for the Champ and then Fentanyl Oxycodone Glutethamide for the Fog.

Schedule three medications there aren’t a ton of these I say Three Tax Tests so you’re imagining a test that you’ve got an A on with three tacks in the cork board you can remember Testosterone and the other meds in the C3 DEA drug schedule. So T Testosterone, AC is for Acetaminophen with Codeine 90 milligrams or less per dosage unit, K is Ketamine and S is for the Steroids Anabolic.

So T Testosterone AC Acetaminophen Codeine 90 milligrams or less per dosage unit K for Ketamine and S for Steroids Anabolic.

Now Schedule four drugs have a lot of medications and the majority of them are going to be Benzodiazepines with the Azepam or Azolam ending and that might be one of the easier ways to remember it but let me go through this list and talk about the mnemonic.

So the mnemonic for the C4 drugs for Calm Cats spelled C-A-T-T-T-Z and you think of four cats sleeping but just spelled differently for the DEA Schedule C 4 medications. So C is for Clonazepam some people like to call it Clonazepam that’s brand name Klonopin A is for Alprazolam brands Xanax L is for Lorazepam brand Ativan and M is for Midazolam brand Verset.

And what I would do is I would take the time to just memorize those four to start Cloneazepam Alprazolam Lorazepam Daisolam notice that the two endings of Azepam and Azelam are there from the Benzodiazepine and then move on to the Cat’s half of the mnemonic.

So then you go on to Carissa Protol Bransoma A for Ambien which is the brand name of Zolpidem T Tramadol Ultram T Tamazepam which is Resteril T Triazolam Halcyon and Z Zaloplan which is brand Sonata.

So again, The Four Calm Cats that’s what helps you remember the C4 medications but in general if you have a Benzodiazepine that’s probably on there and if you have a sleeping pill like Ambien which is Opidem or Xalaplan which is Sonata that’s probably going to be on there as well.

Our final group of the mnemonics is C5 drugs Five Paste so you’re pacing around because you’re worried that it’s a scheduled drug P is for Pregabalin which is brand Lyrica AC is for And Cough as in Robitussin AC or Charitas And AC which also could mean And Codeine E for Elixirs 200 milligrams of Codeine in every 100 mls and then D for Diphenoxylate with Atropine that’s brand Lamodal.

And again if you want to get in touch with me tonythepharmacist@gmail.com otherwise I will work to make a couple of more of these slides if you enjoy what you’re hearing just comment below on the YouTube videos and it just under the Tony PharmD channel and you can subscribe there as well as the podcast.

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