Laudanum drug (No. 9639) under the Controlled Substances Act. In the United States, opium tincture is marketed and distributed by several pharmaceutical firms, each producing a single formulation of the drug, which is deodorized. Each mL contains 10 mg of anhydrous morphine (the equivalent of 100 mg of powdered opium), other opium alkaloids (except noscapine), and ethanol, 19%. It is available prepackaged in bottles of four ounces (118 mL) and 16 ounces (1 pint or 473 mL). Tincture of Opium is known as one of many "unapproved drugs" regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA); the marketing and distribution
Drug expiration drugs, discarding them on a regular schedule, and using them as directed when appropriate. Drug recycling is a fringe and experimental concept but in some places it happens. Sometimes, an individual or organization will have valuable medicine which they do not intend to use. If that medication could be used by other people before its expiration, then sometimes, interested parties discuss drug recycling to transfer ownership of the drugs away from the party which will not use them to the party which needs them. In such discussions, anyone considering the transfer of drugs will also consider if drugs could be