Are Barbiturates legal in Guyana?

Legal status

Controlled, and the applied cell has this the wrong way round. It says a member search naming phenobarbital, secobarbital, amobarbital and butalbital returned no proved current named entry for any of the four. Three of the four are named in the Act. Part III of the Second Schedule prints «AMOBARBITAL» at 5-ethyl-5-(3-methylbutyl) barbituric acid, «SECOBARBITAL» at 5-allyl-5-(1-methylbutyl) barbituric acid, and also «CYCLOBARBITAL», «GLUTETHIMIDE» and «PENTOBARBITAL». Phenobarbital appears in the consolidation as well. Only butalbital is absent. Read off the page image of page 123 at 170 dpi and confirmed in the text layer [Certain]. So a barbiturate in this corpus is placed unless it is butalbital, and the class does not fail for want of a member. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the list read is the First and Second Schedules to the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act, Cap. 10:10 as it stands at L.R.O. 1/2012, and the Minister may amend the Schedules by order, so this does not rule out a later addition.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Guyana's Cap. 10:10 carries no death penalty at any tier; section 5(1) sets the indictable trafficking ceiling at life imprisonment, so the worst outcome this Act reaches is a life sentence. That is the ceiling any barbiturate would face if it were placed, and on this record none is proved placed, so no penalty article attaches to the class word. The dossier assigns this row no ceiling for exactly that reason: controlled status was not settled from the primary instrument. Do not read the absence of a proved entry as a finding that barbiturates are uncontrolled in Guyana. It is a finding that the four members searched returned no proved entry in what was read.

If prescribed or medical

Deferred twice over, and both halves are honest. The dossier carries no Guyanese prescription rule, import permit or personal medicine allowance of any kind, and it also settles no placement for any barbiturate, so neither part of the question can be answered. Phenobarbital is the practical case, because a patient carrying it for epilepsy is carrying a medicine whose status here is unproved rather than cleared. Identify the compound first, then settle it with the Guyanese authorities before travelling.

Documentation

Have the prescription name the barbiturate, because the class word is precisely the thing that cannot be answered. Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with a prescriber's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period. Nothing in the dossier confirms that Guyana accepts any of it. The member search recorded for this row was read on 20 September 2026 and named four barbiturates, none of them proved as a current entry.

Drug laws and enforcement change and vary within a country. This is not legal advice. Always confirm with Guyana’s embassy or official drug authority before traveling; penalties can be severe, including imprisonment.