Is DXM legal in Belarus?

Also known as: robo, dextromethorphan

Legal status

DXM is regulated in Belarus, and it is regulated somewhere other than the narcotics annexes. The route is Закон Республики Беларусь «О лекарственных средствах», which carries dxm medicinal-product controls. The antitussive is reached through the medicines law as a medicinal product, and the search ran on both the Latin code and the Russian transliteration of dextromethorphan before the annexes were closed out. Supply conditions, not a narcotics listing, are what constrain it. The annexes to Постановление Министерства здравоохранения № 19 от 11 февраля 2015 г. республиканский перечень were searched on "DXM", "dekstrometorfan" at № 19/2015 with the official 2025 and 10 March 2026 amendments and returned no accepted entry, and that absence is recorded as a finding about where the regulation sits rather than as a finding that nothing regulates it. Record BEL-37. The negative half of that cross check carries a limit worth stating: the terms just quoted are in Latin script, as all eighty eight search sets in this source are, while the entries the source accepts elsewhere are mostly printed in Cyrillic, so a Latin search of a Cyrillic annex can return nothing whether or not the substance is on it.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Belarus retains capital punishment as a country, and that is exactly why this line has to be read carefully rather than skimmed: no drug offence in Criminal Code articles 327 to 328 with a superscript one carries it. The entry relied on for DXM is «Декстрометорфан». The ceiling for a drug offence is 25 years. Criminal Code article 328(5) provides a term of twelve to twenty-five years. That is the top of the drug scale and it is not death. A source that reports three quantity bands for Belarus has read another country's structure into it. Resolution No. 606 gives one. The quantity instrument prints this row as «instrument gives no significant band»; «large size: over 10.0 g»; «instrument gives no separate especially-large band». Resolution No. 606 gives a large-size figure and nothing else. Where this row says the instrument gives no significant band or no especially large band, that is the instrument's own silence and not a gap in the reading.

If prescribed or medical

The traveller rule is stated at country level and it is the same for every substance in this set: Belarus provides no lawful personal use allowance for a scheduled drug and no traveller exemption, and a scheduled medicine has to satisfy Закон Республики Беларусь «О лекарственных средствах» as well as the narcotics annexes. This row's placement is outside those annexes and inside Закон Республики Беларусь «О лекарственных средствах», record BEL-37, so what a traveller has to satisfy is that regime's own requirements, dxm medicinal-product controls. The source states no medical route specific to DXM and none is supplied here. The placement is the medicines law rather than an annex row, so what a traveller has to satisfy is the prescription and dispensing rule for a medicinal product.

Documentation

Carry the paperwork the Закон Республики Беларусь «О лекарственных средствах» route requires rather than narcotics paperwork, in the original packaging, and be able to show what the product is and on what basis you hold it. The narcotics cross check that puts this row outside the республиканский перечень was run against № 19/2015 with the official 2025 and 10 March 2026 amendments on 20 September 2026, record BEL-37. A later amendment can add an entry that moves a substance from that regime onto the annexes, so recheck before travel. Carry the medicine in its original packaging with the prescription, and expect the question to be a medicines question rather than a narcotics one.

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