I am in drug discovery, and over the last few days I searched for an opiate that hasn't been scheduled yet. The class of compounds that this compound belongs to

I am in drug discovery, and over the last few days I searched for an opiate that hasn't been scheduled yet. The class of compounds that this compound belongs to was investigated 30 - 40 years back, they never made it into the clinic, but you begin encountering them on the streets because the DOJ hasn't prohibited them yet. I am also in an academic environment, and it has happened before that researchers diverted university resources for their own profit. In a previous workplace they fired a grad student over this, in the lab next to mine. I am under no illusions that I have already attracted suspicion from NSA/FBI/CIA/whatnot. The suspicion is something what I could do wholly without.