Legality
Barbiturates legal status by country
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) —...
- AustraliaBarbiturates are prescription-controlled medicines under the Poisons Standard (SUSMP) — phenobarbital and the...
- BahrainBarbiturates are controlled psychotropic substances under the Second Group of Bahrain's Decree-Law No. 15 of...
- BangladeshBarbiturates are lower-class psychotropic sedatives under the Narcotics Control Act 2018 (below Class 'Ka'/A)...
- BrazilBarbiturates are controlled psychotropics in List B1 of Portaria SVS/MS 344/1998 — dispensed on a blue...
- BruneiBarbiturates are controlled drugs under the Misuse of Drugs Act (Cap. 27) — the class is scheduled at the...
- 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...
- CubaBarbiturates are captured generically by Cuba's Penal Code (Law 151/2022) and controlled-substance rules...
- EgyptBarbiturates are Schedule IV prescription-only psychotropics (MoH Decree 301/1976 under Law 182/1960) — a...
- FranceBarbiturates are prescription-controlled substances vénéneuses (Code de la santé publique) transposing the...
- GermanyBarbiturates are controlled narcotics in Anlage III of the Narcotics Act (BtMG) — the...
- GreeceBarbiturates are scheduled psychotropics under Law 4139/2013 (the Drug Code) — a prescription-controlled...
- IndiaBarbiturates are psychotropic substances under the NDPS Act 1985 and prescription drugs under the Drugs and...
- IndonesiaBarbiturates are Psikotropika substances scheduled by compound under Law No. 5/1997 — the sedative-hypnotic...
- IranBarbiturates are controlled psychotropic medicines under Iran's Psychotropic Substances (Ravangardan) Law of...
- IrelandBarbiturates are controlled drugs under the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2017 (S.I. 173/2017) — a class...
- ItalyBarbiturates are listed in the 'Tabella dei medicinali' of DPR 309/90 — a prescription-controlled...
- JapanBarbiturates are controlled psychotropics under the Narcotics and Psychotropics Control Act, classed by...
- JordanBarbiturates are scheduled psychotropic prescription medicines under Jordan's Drug Law No. 11 of 1988 (as...
- KuwaitBarbiturates are controlled psychotropic substances under Kuwait's Decree-Law No. 159 of 2025 on Combating...
- LaosBarbiturates are handled under Laos's general controlled-psychotropic regime (Law on Narcotics No. 10/NA, as...
- MalaysiaBarbiturates are prescription-controlled substances under the Poisons Act 1952 (psychotropic transposition of...
- MaldivesBarbiturates are registered prescription medicines in the Schedule 2 (medical-utility) tier under the Drugs...
- MexicoBarbiturates are psychotropics under Article 245 of the General Health Law (Ley General de Salud) — classed...
- NetherlandsBarbiturates are List II psychotropics under the Opium Act (Opiumwet) — the lower control tier transposing...
- New ZealandBarbiturates are Class C controlled drugs (Schedule 3, Misuse of Drugs Act 1975) — the class is scheduled by...
- NigeriaBarbiturates are psychotropic substances (1971 Convention) under the NDLEA Act (Cap. N30) and NAFDAC control...
- OmanBarbiturates are controlled psychotropic substances under Oman's Royal Decree 17/99 (Law on Combating...
- PakistanBarbiturates are Schedule-I psychotropic substances under the Control of Narcotic Substances Act 1997...
- PhilippinesBarbiturates are controlled dangerous drugs under RA 9165 (Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act 2002), listed by...
- PolandBarbiturates are psychotropic substances scheduled by compound under the Counteracting Drug Addiction Act...
- PortugalBarbiturates are psychotropics scheduled by compound in Decreto-Lei 15/93 (phenobarbital/barbital in Tabela...
- QatarControlled under Law 9/1987 (amended 16/2023) — phenobarbital sits on Table 2 (controlled psychotropic...
- Saudi ArabiaControlled under Royal Decree M/39 (2005), Schedule 2 (psychotropic substances) — phenobarbital sits in...
- SingaporeBarbiturates are prescription-controlled substances (barbituric acid and its derivatives) transposing the...
- 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...
- SpainBarbiturates are psychotropic substances under Real Decreto 2829/1977 (transposing the 1971 Convention) — a...
- Sri LankaBarbiturates are prescription-only psychotropics (Schedule IIB, Cosmetics, Devices and Drugs Act No. 27 of...
- SwedenBarbiturates are narcotic drugs scheduled by compound under the Narcotics Control Act (1968:64) and LVFS...
- SwitzerlandBarbiturates are controlled narcotics under the Narcotics Act (BetmG, SR 812.121) — phenobarbital and the...
- TaiwanBarbiturates are controlled drugs scheduled by compound under the Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act and the...
- ThailandBarbiturates are psychotropic substances under the Narcotics Code B.E. 2564 (2021), classed by compound — the...
- TurkeyBarbiturates are controlled psychotropics (1971 Convention) dispensed on a green prescription (yeşil reçete)...
- United Arab EmiratesControlled under Federal Decree-Law 30/2021 — phenobarbital is a MOHAP Controlled Drug (Psychotropic Schedule...
- United KingdomBarbiturates are Class B controlled drugs (Misuse of Drugs Act 1971), scheduled as a class by compound tier...
- VietnamBarbiturates are List III psychotropics scheduled by compound under Decree 57/2022/NĐ-CP (carried into later...
- YemenBarbiturates are scheduled psychotropic prescription medicines under Yemen's narcotics and psychotropics law...
Not individually verified
For these 175 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
- American Samoa (US)
- Andorra
- Angola
- Anguilla (UK)
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Aruba (Netherlands)
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Belize
- Benin
- Bermuda (UK)
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- British Virgin Islands (UK)
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Cameroon
- Caribbean Netherlands (BES)
- Cayman Islands (UK)
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile
- China
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Congo
- Cook Islands
- Costa Rica
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Croatia
- Curaçao (Netherlands)
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Denmark
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- DR Congo
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Estonia
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Falkland Islands (UK)
- Faroe Islands (Denmark)
- Fiji
- Finland
- French Polynesia (France)
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Ghana
- Gibraltar (UK)
- Grenada
- Guam (US)
- Guatemala
- Guernsey (UK Crown Dependency)
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Holy See
- Honduras
- Hong Kong
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Iraq
- Isle of Man (UK Crown Dependency)
- Israel
- Jamaica
- Jersey (UK Crown Dependency)
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Kosovo
- Kyrgyzstan
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Macau
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Malta
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Micronesia
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Montserrat (UK)
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- New Caledonia (France)
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- North Korea
- North Macedonia
- Northern Mariana Islands (US)
- Norway
- Palau
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Puerto Rico (US)
- Romania
- Russia
- Rwanda
- Saint Helena (UK)
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- San Marino
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Sint Maarten (Netherlands)
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Africa
- State of Palestine
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkmenistan
- Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)
- Tuvalu
- U.S. Virgin Islands (US)
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe