Legality · EtizolamEtizolam in Bangladesh: not individually verified
Not individually verified
We have not confirmed that Etizolam specifically is scheduled in Bangladesh, so this page gives no legal status. Publishing a guess here would be worse than publishing nothing. What we do know is the governing national drug law, below.
- What is on record
- Not confirmed for Bangladesh. Etizolam is named nowhere in the First Schedule. It is a thienotriazolodiazepine, a benzodiazepine bioisostere with the benzene ring replaced by thiophene, and about forty benzodiazepines are named in Class 'ga' at serial 3. Searched, on 2026-09-17: the full First Schedule as printed in the Bangladesh Gazette of 14 November 2018, all three classes and every serial, for this substance's name, its synonyms and its abbreviations; the consolidated Act on bdlaws for the same terms; both amending Acts for a schedule amendment, finding none; and the Department of Narcotics Control's own list of laws, which carries ten instruments and no schedule amendment. The name is not there. What is left is Class 'ga' serial 4, which reaches an «অ্যানালগ», and section 2(3) defines one as «তপশিলের অন্তর্ভুক্ত হয় নাই এইরূপ বস্তু, যাহার রাসায়নিক সংগঠন তপশিলের অন্তর্গত কোনো মাদকের রাসায়নিক সংগঠনের অনুরূপ এবং যাহার আসক্তি সৃষ্টিকারী মনোদৈহিক কার্যক্রম একই রকম», a substance not in the schedule whose chemical composition resembles a scheduled narcotic's and whose addiction-forming psychoactive action is the same. That is a judgment about resemblance and effect, not a fact on the face of the schedule, and no Bangladeshi decision applying section 2(3) to this substance was found. The status is therefore not confirmed. Treat it as controlled and assume a court would apply the analogue clause.
Confirm directly with Bangladesh’s national drug authority or your own embassy before you rely on anything.
What Bangladesh HAS confirmed for related substances
These are related compounds, not Etizolam. Their status may or may not reflect Etizolam’s. Confirm Etizolam directly with Bangladesh's national drug authority or your embassy.
Listed in two classes of the First Schedule, not one. The benzodiazepines are Class 'ga' serial 3 of the First Schedule, which names about forty compounds from Flunitrazepam through Alprazolam, Bromazepam, Clonazepam, Diazepam, Lorazepam, Midazolam, Nimetazepam, Nitrazepam, Oxazepam, Temazepam and Triazolam to Zolpidem. The class is not wholly in Class 'ga', and that matters: Chlordiazepoxide and Ethyl loflazepate are in Class 'kha' at serial 4 instead, a heavier class, so a single answer for the whole family would be wrong. Serial 4 of Class 'ga' carries the derivatives, alkaloids, salts, isomers, analogues and agonists of serial 3.
Bangladesh, Narcotics Control Act 2018, Act No. 63 of 2018, assented 14 November 2018 and in force from 27 December 2018 by S.R.O. No. 362-Law/2018 of 10 December 2018, as amended by the Narcotics Control (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 26 of 2020, and the Narcotics Control (Amendment) Act 2026, Act No. 101 of 2026 of 16 July 2026 · First Schedule, Class 'ga', serial 3, and section 36 table row 33 · the Bengali text is the authentic one and section 70(2) gives it priority over any English translation, so this cell was read in Bengali and no translation was relied on · sections read from the consolidated Act at http://bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd/act-print-1276.html, which does not carry the schedules · the First Schedule read from the Bangladesh Gazette, Extraordinary, 14 November 2018, pages 15051 to 15056, reached through the Department of Narcotics Control's own law page at https://dnc.jhalakathi.gov.bd/pages/law-policy/6978735335ce18e1c0660a39 · read as at 2026-09-17, on which date neither amending Act contained the word তপশিল and the Department's own list of ten instruments carried no schedule amendment, so the First Schedule stands as enacted · Verified October 8, 2026
Clonazepam is named in Class 'ga' at serial 3 of the First Schedule, between Clobazam and Clorazepate.
Bangladesh, Narcotics Control Act 2018, Act No. 63 of 2018, assented 14 November 2018 and in force from 27 December 2018 by S.R.O. No. 362-Law/2018 of 10 December 2018, as amended by the Narcotics Control (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 26 of 2020, and the Narcotics Control (Amendment) Act 2026, Act No. 101 of 2026 of 16 July 2026 · First Schedule, Class 'ga', serial 3, and section 36 table row 33 · the Bengali text is the authentic one and section 70(2) gives it priority over any English translation, so this cell was read in Bengali and no translation was relied on · sections read from the consolidated Act at http://bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd/act-print-1276.html, which does not carry the schedules · the First Schedule read from the Bangladesh Gazette, Extraordinary, 14 November 2018, pages 15051 to 15056, reached through the Department of Narcotics Control's own law page at https://dnc.jhalakathi.gov.bd/pages/law-policy/6978735335ce18e1c0660a39 · read as at 2026-09-17, on which date neither amending Act contained the word তপশিল and the Department's own list of ten instruments carried no schedule amendment, so the First Schedule stands as enacted · Verified September 21, 2026
Diazepam is named in Class 'ga' at serial 3 of the First Schedule, the first entry on the schedule's second page of that serial, before Estazolam.
Bangladesh, Narcotics Control Act 2018, Act No. 63 of 2018, assented 14 November 2018 and in force from 27 December 2018 by S.R.O. No. 362-Law/2018 of 10 December 2018, as amended by the Narcotics Control (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 26 of 2020, and the Narcotics Control (Amendment) Act 2026, Act No. 101 of 2026 of 16 July 2026 · First Schedule, Class 'ga', serial 3, and section 36 table row 33 · the Bengali text is the authentic one and section 70(2) gives it priority over any English translation, so this cell was read in Bengali and no translation was relied on · sections read from the consolidated Act at http://bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd/act-print-1276.html, which does not carry the schedules · the First Schedule read from the Bangladesh Gazette, Extraordinary, 14 November 2018, pages 15051 to 15056, reached through the Department of Narcotics Control's own law page at https://dnc.jhalakathi.gov.bd/pages/law-policy/6978735335ce18e1c0660a39 · read as at 2026-09-17, on which date neither amending Act contained the word তপশিল and the Department's own list of ten instruments carried no schedule amendment, so the First Schedule stands as enacted · Verified September 21, 2026
Lorazepam is named in Class 'ga' at serial 3 of the First Schedule, between Loprazolam and Lormetazepam.
Bangladesh, Narcotics Control Act 2018, Act No. 63 of 2018, assented 14 November 2018 and in force from 27 December 2018 by S.R.O. No. 362-Law/2018 of 10 December 2018, as amended by the Narcotics Control (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 26 of 2020, and the Narcotics Control (Amendment) Act 2026, Act No. 101 of 2026 of 16 July 2026 · First Schedule, Class 'ga', serial 3, and section 36 table row 33 · the Bengali text is the authentic one and section 70(2) gives it priority over any English translation, so this cell was read in Bengali and no translation was relied on · sections read from the consolidated Act at http://bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd/act-print-1276.html, which does not carry the schedules · the First Schedule read from the Bangladesh Gazette, Extraordinary, 14 November 2018, pages 15051 to 15056, reached through the Department of Narcotics Control's own law page at https://dnc.jhalakathi.gov.bd/pages/law-policy/6978735335ce18e1c0660a39 · read as at 2026-09-17, on which date neither amending Act contained the word তপশিল and the Department's own list of ten instruments carried no schedule amendment, so the First Schedule stands as enacted · Verified September 21, 2026
Alprazolam is named in Class 'ga' at serial 3 of the First Schedule, the second entry in a list of about forty benzodiazepines and related hypnotics that runs from Flunitrazepam to Zolpidem. Class 'ga' is the lightest of the three classes.
Bangladesh, Narcotics Control Act 2018, Act No. 63 of 2018, assented 14 November 2018 and in force from 27 December 2018 by S.R.O. No. 362-Law/2018 of 10 December 2018, as amended by the Narcotics Control (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 26 of 2020, and the Narcotics Control (Amendment) Act 2026, Act No. 101 of 2026 of 16 July 2026 · First Schedule, Class 'ga', serial 3, and section 36 table row 33 · the Bengali text is the authentic one and section 70(2) gives it priority over any English translation, so this cell was read in Bengali and no translation was relied on · sections read from the consolidated Act at http://bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd/act-print-1276.html, which does not carry the schedules · the First Schedule read from the Bangladesh Gazette, Extraordinary, 14 November 2018, pages 15051 to 15056, reached through the Department of Narcotics Control's own law page at https://dnc.jhalakathi.gov.bd/pages/law-policy/6978735335ce18e1c0660a39 · read as at 2026-09-17, on which date neither amending Act contained the word তপশিল and the Department's own list of ten instruments carried no schedule amendment, so the First Schedule stands as enacted · Verified September 21, 2026
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