Are Barbiturates legal in Portugal?
Also known as: barbs
- Legal status
- Barbiturates are psychotropics scheduled by compound in Decreto-Lei 15/93 (phenobarbital/barbital in Tabela IV, the higher-abuse barbiturates in Tabela III); personal use is decriminalised (Lei 30/2000) though the substances remain controlled.
- Consequences if caught
- Personal use is decriminalised (referred to a Dissuasion Commission); trafficking carries multi-year prison terms.
- If prescribed or medical
- Phenobarbital is prescribed as a Tabela IV antiepileptic (a WHO Essential Medicine); the sedative-hypnotic barbiturates are rarely used.
- Documentation
- Carry the Schengen Article 75 certificate and prescription; roughly a 10-daily-dose personal threshold applies before a trafficking presumption.
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