Is DXM legal in Ukraine?

Legal status

Governed in Ukraine as a medicine rather than as a scheduled substance. Record UKR-37 reports that Постанова № 770, таблиці I to IV, consolidated text read on 20 September 2026, was searched under the abbreviation and the full name and that no narcotics or psychotropic heading was accepted, and that the regime which applies is Закон України «Про лікарські засоби» with its controls on authorisation, prescription status, labelling, import and customs. The finding is the medicines regime. The absence of a narcotics heading is a negative record from one reading of the consolidated list, not an independent confirmation, and this source does not state whether the product is prescription only or available without one in Ukraine. The negative half is unmeasured. The narcotics check logs "DXM" and "dekstrometorfan", both Latin and the second one of a recurring set of South Slavic transliterations, run against an annex this source records as printed in Cyrillic. That search could not match a Cyrillic heading, so no absence is established and the medicines finding carries the cell on its own.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Ukrainian law has no death penalty, and the narcotics ceiling the source names, twelve years of imprisonment under Кримінальний кодекс України, стаття 307, does not reach this substance on this record because no heading was accepted for it. Наказ МОЗ № 188 has no band for it for the same reason. The exposure that exists runs through the medicines regime, as supply without authorisation, sale outside a pharmacy or import of an unauthorised product, and this source reproduces none of those provisions or their penalties, so no article and no figure is stated here. 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. This row is placed outside the narcotics regime, so they are recorded as Ukraine's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.

If prescribed or medical

The Ukrainian country rule this source states, no personal use allowance, criminal grading under наказ МОЗ № 188 and compliance with Закон України «Про лікарські засоби» for a scheduled medicine, engages here only through its medicines limb, because record UKR-37 records a separate regime finding and no accepted narcotics heading. So the product travels as a medicine. Whether Ukraine treats it as prescription only, what quantity a traveller may bring for personal use and whether a foreign prescription is recognised were not established in this source and were not researched, so none of that is stated.

Documentation

Carry the cough or cold preparation in its original retail or dispensing pack with the ingredient declaration showing the content per dose, because record UKR-37 places this substance in the medicines regime and that regime turns on what the product is and how it is presented. Where it was dispensed on prescription, carry the prescription and the pharmacy label in the patient's name, and a prescriber's letter for anything beyond a short course. Carry a quantity consistent with personal use over the trip. The narcotics list was read on 20 September 2026.

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.