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Legality · Etizolam

Etizolam in Pakistan: not individually verified

Not individually verified

We have not confirmed that Etizolam specifically is scheduled in Pakistan, 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 Pakistan. Etizolam is named in no schedule of the Control of Narcotic Substances Act, 1997. Schedule-I names thirty-four individual benzodiazepines and carries no class entry. Etizolam is a thienotriazolodiazepine, and the schedule's one thienodiazepine, CLOTIAZEPAM at serial 20, is a different compound with no triazole ring. Searched 'etizol' and 'thieno' across both instruments.

Confirm directly with Pakistan’s national drug authority or your own embassy before you rely on anything.

What Pakistan HAS confirmed for related substances

These are related compounds, not Etizolam. Their status may or may not reflect Etizolam’s. Confirm Etizolam directly with Pakistan's national drug authority or your embassy.

  • Benzodiazepinesa related compound, not Etizolam

    Benzodiazepines is a psychotropic substance under the Control of Narcotic Substances Act, 1997. Section 2(za) defines the term as 'the substances, specified in the Schedule-I to this Act' plus anything the Federal Government declares by gazette notification, and Schedule-I carries it: thirty-four serials of Schedule-I are benzodiazepines, among them ALPRAZOLAM at 4, BROMAZEPAM at 11, CHLORDIAZEPOXIDE at 16, CLONAZEPAM at 18, DIAZEPAM at 24, FLUNITRAZEPAM at 35, MIDAZOLAM at 57, NITRAZEPAM at 59, OXAZEPAM at 61, TEMAZEPAM at 79 and TRIAZOLAM at 81. Column 3 gives the chemical name as 'each is given its own systematic name in column 3, for example diazepam at serial 24 as 7-chloro-1,3-dihydro-1-methyl-5-phenyl-2H-1,4-benzodiazpine-2-one'. The schedule names individual compounds. It carries no class entry for benzodiazepines, so a benzodiazepine absent from the list is outside it.

    pakistancode.gov.pk · Verified September 21, 2026

  • Clonazepama related compound, not Etizolam

    Clonazepam is a psychotropic substance under the Control of Narcotic Substances Act, 1997. Section 2(za) defines the term as 'the substances, specified in the Schedule-I to this Act' plus anything the Federal Government declares by gazette notification, and Schedule-I carries it: serial 18 of Schedule-I, 'CLONAZEPAM'. Column 3 gives the chemical name as '5-(0-chlorophgenyl)-1,3-dihydro-7-nitro-2H-1,4-benzodiazpine-2-one'.

    pakistancode.gov.pk · Verified September 21, 2026

  • Diazepama related compound, not Etizolam

    Diazepam is a psychotropic substance under the Control of Narcotic Substances Act, 1997. Section 2(za) defines the term as 'the substances, specified in the Schedule-I to this Act' plus anything the Federal Government declares by gazette notification, and Schedule-I carries it: serial 24 of Schedule-I, 'DIAZEPAM'. Column 3 gives the chemical name as '7-chloro-1,3-dihydro-1-methyl-5-phenyl-2H-1,4-benzodiazpine-2-one'.

    pakistancode.gov.pk · Verified September 21, 2026

  • Lorazepama related compound, not Etizolam

    Lorazepam is a psychotropic substance under the Control of Narcotic Substances Act, 1997. Section 2(za) defines the term as 'the substances, specified in the Schedule-I to this Act' plus anything the Federal Government declares by gazette notification, and Schedule-I carries it: serial 44 of Schedule-I. The Pakistan Code prints the name as 'LOPRAZEPAM', but the chemical name in column 3 is lorazepam's and not loprazolam's, and loprazolam already has serial 43. Column 3 gives the chemical name as '7-chloro-5-(0-chlorophenyl)-l,3-dihydro-3-hydroxy-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one'. The identification rests on column 3. Serial 45, LORMETAZEPAM, prints the same skeleton with the 1-methyl added, which is the structural difference between the two.

    pakistancode.gov.pk · Verified September 21, 2026

  • Xanax (Alprazolam)a related compound, not Etizolam

    Alprazolam is a psychotropic substance under the Control of Narcotic Substances Act, 1997. Section 2(za) defines the term as 'the substances, specified in the Schedule-I to this Act' plus anything the Federal Government declares by gazette notification, and Schedule-I carries it: serial 4 of Schedule-I, 'ALPRAZOLAM'. Column 3 gives the chemical name as '8-chloro-l-methyl-6-phenyl-4H-s-triazoIo [4, 3-a] [1,4] bensodiadazepine'.

    pakistancode.gov.pk · Verified September 21, 2026

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