Is Buprenorphine legal in Ukraine?

Legal status

Controlled in Ukraine by name, and it is also a medicine the state itself supplies. Постанова № 770, таблиці I to IV, consolidated text read on 20 September 2026, prints the heading «Бупренорфін» at CAS 52485-79-7, and record UKR-23 accepts that printed row rather than reasoning from the empowering provision. The heading is given here in sentence case because the list prints in capitals. Substance identity in Ukraine belongs to the Перелік, approved under стаття 7 of Закон України «Про наркотичні засоби, психотропні речовини і прекурсори», and the criminal code never names a molecule. What this source does not state is which of таблиці I to IV the heading sits in, and for an opioid agonist used in substitution treatment the table is what decides the dispensing and record keeping regime.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Ukraine has no death penalty. The trade article the source names is Кримінальний кодекс України, стаття 307, with a ceiling of twelve years of imprisonment at its third part and no life sentence anywhere in the article. Because the heading at CAS 52485-79-7 is matched, наказ МОЗ № 188 supplies the small, large and especially large bands and those bands decide which part of стаття 307 is engaged. For a sublingual product the bands bite quickly relative to the number of tablets a patient may hold, and this source does not reproduce the figures, so none is stated here. The source names no separate possession article. Separately from that, and carried forward from this site's published Ukraine entry rather than re-derived from the Code in this pass, the published penalties are these. Personal use of a small amount is administrative under article 44 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, a fine of 25 to 50 tax free minimum incomes, 20 to 60 hours of community service, or administrative arrest of up to 15 days. Above small, personal use under article 309 is criminal, a fine, correctional labour of up to two years, or restriction of liberty of up to five years, rising to up to three years where aggravated or large and up to eight years where a minor is involved. Trafficking or sale under article 307 draws four to twelve years with property forfeiture. Smuggling under article 305 draws five to eight years, and up to eight to ten years aggravated. The published entry records the small, large and especially large quantity thresholds as very low, and that trace amounts have triggered article 309. Drug use itself, other than in public, is not criminal there. Every figure in this paragraph is a penalty range or a fine and none of them is a quantity threshold. They describe the offences that this row's placement in the Ukrainian list brings into play.

If prescribed or medical

No personal use quantity is lawful in Ukraine, наказ МОЗ № 188 grades criminal conduct rather than licensing a traveller, and a scheduled medicine must also satisfy Закон України «Про лікарські засоби» on prescription, packaging, import and customs. Attached to this row the placement is a matched heading at CAS 52485-79-7, and the usual carrier is a patient in opioid agonist treatment. Whether a course of treatment dispensed abroad can be carried into Ukraine, and under what permit, was not established in this source and was not researched. A treatment programme letter is not the same as a Ukrainian authorisation, and this record cannot say that one suffices.

Documentation

Carry the prescription, the original dispensing pack with the pharmacy label in the patient's name, and a letter from the treating clinic naming the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose, the duration of treatment and the total quantity carried. For substitution treatment carry the programme's contact details and the prescriber's registration, because continuity of supply is the point and an interruption is a clinical event. Keep the quantity within the stated period. The heading at CAS 52485-79-7 was read in the consolidated list on 20 September 2026 and a later amendment can move it between tables.

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