Is DXM legal in Sweden?
Also known as: robo, dextromethorphan
- Legal status
- Controlled. Dextrometorfan is named in Förteckning V of the Swedish narkotikaförteckningar, which are Läkemedelsverkets föreskrifter (LVFS 2011:10) om förteckningar över narkotika, made under 3 § förordningen (1992:1554) om kontroll av narkotika. The version read for this cell is the consolidated text, which states on its own first page that it contains amendments through HSLF-FS 2026:26. The row reads «Dextrometorfan DXM», and its international column reads no international listing. The Anmärkning column on that row reads «Beredningar för medicinskt eller vetenskapligt bruk i form av lösningar som inte innehåller mer än 3 mg/ml är undantagna». Förteckning V is the tier for certain substances declared narcotic nationally, for which a separate permit is not needed on each single occasion of import or export.
- Consequences if caught
- Capital exposure: none. Sweden has no death penalty for any offence, so no drug offence here carries capital exposure. The live cell recorded that unauthorised possession, supply or import is a narcotics offence carrying fines to imprisonment. The exemption in the föreskrift is a quantity: a preparation for medical or scientific use, in solution, containing not more than 3 mg/ml, is exempted.
- If prescribed or medical
- The live cell recorded that no marketed cough medicine containing dextromethorphan exists in Sweden and that medicinal use would need special authorisation, and that no such product has been marketed since about 2000.
- Documentation
- The live cell recorded that a traveller cannot buy a dextromethorphan cough medicine in Sweden and that importing such products is treated as a narcotics offence. It recorded the narcotic classification as taking effect from 7 July 2008, after abuse related deaths. That date is carried forward and was not re-derived: the row read here prints no date.
- Läkemedelsverkets föreskrifter (LVFS 2011:10) om förteckningar över narkotika, konsoliderad version, as amended through HSLF-FS 2026:26, read on 21 September 2026
- 3 § förordningen (1992:1554) om kontroll av narkotika
- Quotations in guillemets are the row's printed tokens in column order. Line wraps inside a name are rejoined, and a hyphen that exists only because of the wrap is dropped. Any further name printed in the row is reported in prose rather than inside the quotation, because the two column layout interleaves it into the middle of the chemical name
- lakemedelsverket.se
- lakemedelsverket.se
- Narkotikastrafflag (1968:64), 1 §, 2 §, 3 § and 8 §
- Narkotikastrafflag (1968:64), read as at amendments through SFS 2024:797, which is the currency the Riksdag prints on the text, carried forward from the live cell and not re-derived
- riksdagen.se
- the row read at line 606 of the pdftotext layout extraction of that consolidated text
- Every penalty band, fine, date, quantity, article and instrument attributed to the live cell in this row is carried forward from it and was not re-derived in this pass
- lakemedelsverket.se
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