Legality
Barbiturates legal status by country
Also known as: barbs
Countries where the legal status of Barbiturates has been confirmed against a primary source. Legal information, not legal advice; drug laws change, so confirm with the destination’s embassy or drug authority before you travel.
Confirmed legal status
Each row links to the full detail for Barbiturates in that country, including consequences and the primary source.
- Aceh (Indonesia)Barbiturates are governed in Aceh by national law as Psikotropika substances (Law No. 5/1997),...
- American Samoa (US)Barbiturates are controlled federally and locally. Federal Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act,...
- AngolaControlled, and the class sits in two tables. Amobarbital and secobarbital are in table II-C of Lei n.º 3/99,...
- ArgentinaControlled through a named constituent or member, not as a label. The row itself is not an entry. The...
- AustraliaControlled as a class; the range runs from Schedule 4 to Schedule 8 in the Poisons Standard while every...
- AustriaControlled in Austria member by member, and Austria's own instruments name the members, so this is a finding...
- BahamasControlled as individually named molecules spread across three tiers, never as a class. The 1994 Application...
- BahrainControlled. The barbiturates are reached through their members, which are spread across three tables:...
- BangladeshThe barbiturates are named individually in Class 'kha' at serial 4: Allobarbital, Amobarbital, Barbital,...
- BarbadosTwelve barbituric acid entries are named individually in Part II of the First Schedule, and the answer...
- BelgiumControlled in Belgium member by member, and Belgium's own annexes name the members, so this is a finding...
- BelizeAny 5, 5 disubstituted barbituric acid is printed in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule III...
- BoliviaResolved through its constituents rather than through an entry of its own. The Anexo to Ley 913 of 16 March...
- BrazilControlled in Brazil. The entry read is item 41 of lista B1, psychotropic substances, and it reads in full:...
- British Virgin Islands (UK)Controlled as Class B drugs under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 178, except that paragraph 6 of...
- BruneiClass D controlled drug. It sits in the First Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 27 of the Laws of...
- BulgariaControlled. Barbiturates is a named entry of Списък III of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията...
- CambodiaBarbiturates are controlled psychotropic prescription substances under Cambodia's Law on Drug Control (2011),...
- CanadaBarbiturates are Schedule IV controlled substances under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA), the...
- ChileControlled. Decreto 867 artículos 1 and 2, because members of this class sit in both listas.
- Costa RicaControlled through named members rather than through one entry, so the exposure turns on which member is in...
- Côte d'IvoireControlled for the twelve barbiturates named in the 1971 Convention, which Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022...
- CroatiaControlled in Croatia through a bounded entry rather than under its own name. Barbiturates is not named in...
- CyprusControlled under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law of 1977 (Law No. 29/1977, as amended;...
- CzechiaControlled member by member and across three different lists rather than as a class. Seznam č. 7 carries...
- DenmarkControlled under the Danish euphoriants legislation substance by substance rather than as a class: it is not...
- Dominican RepublicControlled. The barbiturates are reached by a printed class rule rather than only by individual names: number...
- EgyptControlled in Egypt mostly in Table 3, with three barbiturates in Table 1. «الجدول رقم (٣) - المواد التي تخضع...
- El SalvadorControlled under the Ley Reguladora de las Actividades Relativas a las Drogas, Decreto Legislativo 153 of 2...
- EstoniaBarbiturates is a family label rather than a single scheduled entry, and in Estonia it has no single schedule...
- Falkland Islands (UK)Class B controlled drugs in the Falkland Islands, or Class A in a preparation designed for injection. Part 2...
- Faroe Islands (Denmark)Controlled in the Faroe Islands, member by member across three lists. The barbiturates are not one row of...
- FinlandControlled through named members rather than as a class. The decree names no class term for this row. Section...
- FranceControlled in France member by member rather than as a class, and this is a finding rather than a deferral...
- GermanyListed member by member in Anlage III of the Betäubungsmittelgesetz, so there is no class answer. Germany's...
- GhanaBarbiturates in medical use are controlled substances for medical supply in Ghana, and no barbiturate is...
- GreeceControlled narcotic under Law 4139/2013. The tables name them one compound at a time rather than as a class,...
- GrenadaControlled. The class word is not printed, but twelve individual barbiturates are listed at Part II of the...
- GuyanaControlled, and the applied cell has this the wrong way round. It says a member search naming phenobarbital,...
- HondurasControlled. Barbiturates is reached through the substances it contains, and the entries read were PS 001...
- Hong KongTwo barbiturates are dangerous drugs in Hong Kong and the rest are Part 1 poisons and prescription-only...
- IcelandControlled in Iceland, and the route to that answer is not the printed name of this row. The class name is...
- IndiaControlled in India. The matched entry reads «24 AMOBARBITAL; 25 CYCLOBARBITAL; 28 PENTOBARBITAL; 29...
- IndonesiaControlled across several golongan of Indonesia's Undang-Undang Nomor 5 Tahun 1997 tentang Psikotropika:...
- IranTwelve barbiturates are placed in Iran's schedules by name, and a barbiturate outside those twelve has no...
- IraqControlled through the entries its members occupy. The class word barbiturates it is not named in any Iraqi...
- IrelandControlled, and the answer runs member by member, because barbiturates are a class. Schedule 3 paragraph 1(b)...
- IsraelControlled member by member, five named across two סימנים of חלק ב'; there is no class entry
- ItalyControlled in Italy member by member rather than as a class, and this is a finding rather than a deferral...
- JapanBarbiturates are not one substance in Japanese law, and the class is answered member by member. Japanese law...
- JordanFour barbiturates are expressly listed in Jordan's schedules as psychotropic substances, and the class as...
- KazakhstanIn Kazakhstan barbiturates are listed one by one and not as a class. The Список approved by Government...
- KenyaControlled in part under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act, Cap. 245: eleven...
- KuwaitControlled substance under Decree Law 159 of 2025. Barbiturates are listed at Group 2 as a class, with...
- LaosBarbiturates are handled under Laos's general controlled-psychotropic regime (Law on Narcotics No. 10/NA, as...
- LatviaBarbiturates is controlled in Latvia. The controlling instrument is Annex 2 to the law on the entry into...
- LebanonControlled. The class name is not named in the four tables annexed to Law 673 of 16 March 1998, as those...
- LithuaniaBarbiturates is controlled in Lithuania. Barbiturates is a family label and Order No. 5 gives it no single...
- MalaysiaThe barbiturates are controlled as a class under the Poisons Act 1952 and not under the Dangerous Drugs Act...
- MaldivesBarbiturates are registered prescription medicines in the Schedule 2 (medical-utility) tier under the Drugs...
- MaltaBarbiturates are governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the...
- MexicoControlled member by member, across three different groups. Article 245 of the Ley General de Salud prints...
- MoldovaControlled in Moldova. Barbiturates are listed member by member, mostly in Table III. Table III, «Tabelul...
- MyanmarBarbiturates are a chemical class, not a single schedule entry, and Myanmar controls them member by member....
- NetherlandsControlled member by member, and not all on the same list. The class name barbiturates is not named in lijst...
- NicaraguaControlled in Nicaragua. The entry relied on is «Fenobarbital», printed among the lists and tables annexed to...
- NigeriaBarbiturates are psychotropic substances (1971 Convention) under the NDLEA Act (Cap. N30) and NAFDAC control,...
- NorwayControlled in Norway, member by member rather than as a class. There is no barbiturate group in the groups...
- OmanControlled, member by member. The dossier records that the tables of Group II, Tables 2 to 4, of the annex to...
- PakistanBarbiturates is a psychotropic substance under the Control of Narcotic Substances Act, 1997. Section 2(za)...
- PanamaControlled. Barbiturates is reached by the Panamanian criminal definition of a drug, not by a national...
- PhilippinesControlled member by member, not as a class. The Dangerous Drugs Board's Updated Lists of Scheduled...
- PolandControlled, and the class is split across three tiers of the psychotropic annex rather than held at one....
- PortugalBarbiturates are psychotropics scheduled by compound in Decreto-Lei 15/93 (phenobarbital/barbital in Tabela...
- QatarControlled member by member, and the members do not all sit in the same regime, which is what makes a single...
- RomaniaBarbiturates is controlled in Romania. The entry relied on reads «Secobarbital =...
- Saint LuciaControlled as a class. The member by member route that resolves a class elsewhere cannot be run here, because...
- SamoaThe Narcotics Act 1967, the official version as at 31 December 2023, does not use "barbiturate" as a class...
- Saudi ArabiaControlled under Royal Decree M/39 (2005), Schedule 2 (psychotropic substances), phenobarbital sits in...
- SingaporeNot a controlled drug under this Act. The barbiturate class is in no Part of the First Schedule. Secobarbital...
- SlovakiaBarbiturates is controlled in Slovakia. Barbiturates is a family label and Annex 1 gives it no single result....
- Solomon IslandsRestricted as a poison, with sale by or under the supervision of a registered pharmacist. Barbiturates are a...
- South KoreaBarbiturates are controlled psychotropic substances under the Narcotics Control Act, a...
- South SudanBarbiturates are regulated as medicines under South Sudan's Drug and Food Control Authority Act 2012; they...
- SpainControlled in Spain member by member, across two annexes and several lists, and beyond the 1971 Convention....
- Sri LankaDangerous drug under Sri Lanka's Poisons, Opium and Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Chapter 218): Group B Section...
- SurinameIllegal, and the class word is not what does it. 'Barbituraten' appears nowhere in the act. Twelve individual...
- SwedenControlled. The barbiturates are scheduled compound by compound in the Swedish narkotikaförteckningar, which...
- SwitzerlandControlled in Switzerland member by member rather than as a class, and this is a finding rather than a...
- TaiwanControlled under Taiwan's Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act (毒品危害防制條例) across more than one grade, at 附表三 items...
- TajikistanControlled member by member. The National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020...
- TanzaniaControlled, member by member, for the six barbiturates the First Schedule names. The dossier row, citing the...
- ThailandBarbiturates are psychotropic substances in Thailand, named member by member across three categories, so the...
- Timor-LesteBarbiturates are a class slug, and Lei 2/2017's Anexo II splits named barbiturates across two different...
- TongaNamed, for twelve specific barbiturate derivatives, not for the class generically. Schedule 1 (section 2) of...
- TurkeyBarbiturates are a class and not a molecule, and this row is deferred rather than answered. The member by...
- U.S. Virgin Islands (US)The barbiturates are controlled federally, individually and by schedule rather than as one class. Federal...
- United KingdomControlled as Class B drugs, all of them, with two different regulatory schedules. Part II of Schedule 2 to...
- United StatesControlled, and the class spans three schedules, with the same compound appearing in two of them depending on...
- UzbekistanControlled in Uzbekistan by name, barbiturate by barbiturate. List III of Resolution 330 names, among others,...
- VenezuelaControlled. Ley Orgánica de Drogas article 3 identifies estupefacientes as the substances figuring in lista I...
- VietnamControlled member by member, not as a class. “Barbiturates” is a chemical/drug class rather than one...
- YemenBarbiturates are scheduled psychotropic prescription medicines under Yemen's narcotics and psychotropics law...
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Not individually verified
For these 122 countries the governing national drug law is known and cited, but we have not verified that Barbiturates specifically is scheduled under it. These are not legal answers and are deliberately not published as their own pages. Confirm with the country’s drug authority or your embassy.
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Andorra
- Anguilla (UK)
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Armenia
- Aruba (Netherlands)
- Azerbaijan
- Belarus
- Benin
- Bermuda (UK)
- Bhutan
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Cameroon
- Caribbean Netherlands (BES)
- Cayman Islands (UK)
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- China
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Congo
- Cook Islands
- Cuba
- Curaçao (Netherlands)
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- DR Congo
- Ecuador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- French Polynesia (France)
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Gibraltar (UK)
- Guam (US)
- Guatemala
- Guernsey (UK Crown Dependency)
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Haiti
- Holy See
- Hungary
- Isle of Man (UK Crown Dependency)
- Jamaica
- Jersey (UK Crown Dependency)
- Kiribati
- Kosovo
- Kyrgyzstan
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Liechtenstein
- Luxembourg
- Macau
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Micronesia
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Montserrat (UK)
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- New Caledonia (France)
- New Zealand
- Niger
- North Korea
- North Macedonia
- Northern Mariana Islands (US)
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Puerto Rico (US)
- Russia
- Rwanda
- Saint Helena (UK)
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- San Marino
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Sint Maarten (Netherlands)
- Slovenia
- Somalia
- South Africa
- State of Palestine
- Sudan
- Syria
- Togo
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkmenistan
- Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)
- Tuvalu
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- Uruguay
- Vanuatu
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe