Legality
Gabapentin legal status by country
Also known as: neurontin
Countries where the legal status of Gabapentin has been confirmed against a primary source. Legal information, not legal advice; drug laws change, so confirm with the destination’s embassy or drug authority before you travel.
Confirmed legal status
Each row links to the full detail for Gabapentin in that country, including consequences and the primary source.
- AlbaniaGabapentin is not listed in the narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë...
- Antigua and BarbudaNot listed, and the Act has no gabapentinoid. This is a positive finding of absence and not a deferral. The...
- ArgentinaNot scheduled as an estupefaciente. Every one of the 886 numbered rows of the current Anexo I was searched by...
- ArmeniaGoverned in Armenia through «Դեղերի մասին» Հայաստանի Հանրապետության օրենք rather than through the narcotics...
- AustraliaPrescription only medicine under the Poisons Standard; no Commonwealth criminal drug status. F2026L01327...
- AustriaNot a designated drug in Austria, and controlled instead as a prescription medicine. The placement is the...
- BahamasNot listed in the Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Act (Application) Order, 1994 (S.I. 77 of 1994) as those...
- BahrainControlled. Gabapentin is placed in Group II Schedule 4 of the annex, by Decision 14 of 2020, in Bahrain's...
- BarbadosNot a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap....
- BelarusGabapentin is regulated in Belarus, and it is regulated somewhere other than the narcotics annexes. The route...
- BelgiumGabapentin is a controlled substance in Belgium because it is listed. The Royal Decree of 6 September 2017...
- BrazilControlled in Brazil. The entry read is item 81 of lista C1, the list of other substances subject to special...
- BruneiNot a controlled drug in Brunei. Absent from Part I, Part II, Part III and Part IIIA of the First Schedule to...
- BulgariaNot listed. Gabapentin is not a named entry of Списък I, Списък II or Списък III of the Наредба за реда за...
- CanadaGabapentin is a prescription drug (Prescription Drug List), not a controlled substance: Health Canada's...
- ColombiaNot listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for gabapentina or gabapentin as at 27...
- CroatiaGabapentin is not named in the Popis droga, psihotropnih tvari i biljaka iz kojih se može dobiti droga te...
- CzechiaNot listed. Gabapentin is not printed as an entry in any of the eight seznamy of nařízení vlády č. 463/2013...
- DenmarkNot a euphoriant under the Danish euphoriants legislation: it is not named in liste A, B, C, D or E of...
- Dominican RepublicNot listed. Gabapentin has no entry, and neither does any other gabapentinoid. The absence is the same one...
- EstoniaGabapentin is not listed in the Estonian narcotic and psychotropic schedule. It is governed instead by the...
- FinlandNot a narcotic in Finland. Gabapentin is not named in any annex of valtioneuvoston asetus huumausaineina...
- FranceGabapentin is not carried by either French closed list. The dossier's finding for this row is recorded in the...
- GeorgiaGabapentin is not carried on Georgia's narcotics lists and it is not therefore unregulated. The dossier...
- GermanyGabapentin is not scheduled in Germany. The search ran on 20 September 2026 under „Gabapentin“ across BtMG...
- GhanaGabapentin is not a controlled drug under the Narcotics Control Commission Act 2020 (Act 1019): it is not...
- GreeceNot listed in the Greek narcotics tables. Gabapentin is printed at no entry of ΠΙΝΑΚΑΣ Α, Β, Γ or Δ in the...
- GrenadaNot listed in the First Schedule to the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Chapter 84A, as that...
- HondurasNot a controlled drug for the purposes of Articles 311 to 313 of the Código Penal. Gabapentin, searched also...
- Hong KongNot a dangerous drug under the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Cap. 134). Controlled as a medicine under the...
- HungaryNot listed. Gabapentin is not a named entry of the K1 or K2 jegyzék in the 1. melléklet, of the P1, P2, P3 or...
- IcelandNot a controlled substance in Iceland's narcotics list. Gabapentin is not named in Fylgiskjal I, searched as...
- IndiaNo Indian placement was found for it: it is not named in the Act's Schedule (list of psychotropic...
- IndonesiaNot a narkotika and not a psikotropika under Indonesia's Undang-Undang Nomor 35 Tahun 2009 tentang Narkotika...
- IranGabapentin has no entry of its own in Iran’s recovered drug instruments: it is not named in the...
- IraqNot listed as at 22 September 2026. Its close relative is the decisive contrast: Statement 348 of 2024 added...
- IrelandNot a controlled drug in Ireland. The placement recorded for this row is: No controlled-drug schedule; 2010...
- ItalyNot scheduled. A search of the closed tables I to IV and the table of medicinal products under article 14 of...
- JapanGabapentin is not a controlled substance in Japan. Gabapentin is a cyclohexane gamma-aminobutyric acid...
- JordanWhether Gabapentin is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and...
- KazakhstanGabapentin is not controlled by Kazakhstan's Resolution No. 470, on the version of the lists read for this...
- KenyaNot a controlled drug under Cap. 245 on the text read: it is not named in the First Schedule of narcotic...
- KuwaitControlled substance under Decree Law 159 of 2025. Gabapentin is listed at Group 2, table 2, serial P2-81.
- LatviaGabapentin is not listed in the Latvian controlled substances annex. Annex 2 to the law on the entry into...
- LebanonNot a controlled substance under Law 673 of 16 March 1998 on the version read: it is not named in the four...
- LithuaniaGabapentin is not listed in the Lithuanian narcotic and psychotropic lists. Health Minister Order No. 5 is...
- MacauNot listed in Macau. Gabapentin is named in none of Tables I to VI of Law 17/2009 as replaced in full by Law...
- MalaysiaGabapentin is a prescription poison under the Poisons Act 1952, listed in the Poisons List by name and among...
- MaltaWhich Maltese ordinance governs gabapentin is not established. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that...
- MexicoGabapentin is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General...
- MoldovaNot in Moldova's national tables of controlled substances as at 3 October 2026. Gabapentin, searched as...
- MontenegroNot listed in Montenegro's narcotics and psychotropics schedule, and placed instead under Zakon o ljekovima,...
- MyanmarNot listed in Myanmar's narcotic or psychotropic notifications. Gabapentin was searched for across...
- NetherlandsGabapentin is not named in lijst I, lijst IA or lijst II. No Opiumwet offence arises from it as such, and the...
- New ZealandNot a controlled drug on the text cited, and the absence was tested rather than assumed. Gabapentin, a...
- North MacedoniaNot a controlled drug under the classification lists. The lists carry no row for габапентин, and the...
- NorwayNot controlled as narkotika in Norway. Gabapentin is not a row on the narkotikaliste, and it is not reached...
- OmanControlled, and outside the death penalty article. Gabapentin is named in Group II, Table 4, serial 71 of the...
- PhilippinesNot a dangerous drug on the text read: gabapentin is not listed in the Dangerous Drugs Board's Updated Lists...
- PolandNot named in the Polish national list. Gabapentin appears in none of the three annexes, so it is neither a...
- QatarControlled as a psychotropic medicine in Qatar under Law No. 19 of 1993, named at entry 78 of the Ministry of...
- RomaniaGabapentin is not controlled in Romania, and that is a completed finding rather than an open question. The...
- Saint LuciaNot a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II...
- Saudi ArabiaGabapentin is a controlled psychotropic substance in Saudi Arabia, placed at Schedule II Category E of the...
- SingaporeNot a controlled drug under this Act. Gabapentin is in no Part of the First Schedule. The Fifth Schedule,...
- SlovakiaGabapentin is not listed in the Slovak narcotic and psychotropic schedule. Act No. 139/1998 carries one...
- SloveniaNot named in the annex. A search of every named row of the annex to the Uredba o razvrstitvi prepovedanih...
- South AfricaControlled as a Schedule 3 substance under the Medicines and Related Substances Act 101 of 1965, as at the...
- SpainNot a controlled substance on the text read: Gabapentin is not named in Anexo 1 or Anexo 2 of Real Decreto...
- Sri LankaDangerous drug under Sri Lanka's Poisons, Opium and Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Chapter 218): Group B Section...
- SwedenNot named in the Swedish narkotikaförteckningar, which are Läkemedelsverkets föreskrifter (LVFS 2011:10) om...
- SwitzerlandNot scheduled. The federal schedule ordinance BetmVV-EDI records no entry for gabapentin. The German search...
- TaiwanNot controlled as a narcotic under Taiwan's Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act (毒品危害防制條例): absent from all four...
- ThailandGabapentin is not named in Thailand's criminal drug schedules. A substance specific sweep, run in Thai and by...
- Trinidad and TobagoGabapentin is not a dangerous drug under Chap. 11:25: it is not listed in the First or Second Schedule, as...
- UkraineGoverned in Ukraine as a medicine rather than as a scheduled substance, on this reading. Record UKR-41...
- United Arab EmiratesGabapentin appears twice in Decision No. 158 of 2025. It is placed at Schedule 8, item 38, at the printed...
- United KingdomControlled as a Class C drug. Part III of Schedule 2 to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 names it at paragraph...
- United StatesNot a federally controlled substance. It is in no schedule of 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 and no federal drug...
- UruguayNot placed, and the finding now rests on the current list rather than a superseded one. Gabapentin is not...
- UzbekistanControlled in Uzbekistan as a potent substance of the special category, not as a narcotic. Row 79 of the list...
- VietnamNot named in the danh mục. Gabapentin is absent from all four current lists, so no controlled-drug...
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Not individually verified
For these 143 countries the governing national drug law is known and cited, but we have not verified that Gabapentin specifically is scheduled under it. These are not legal answers and are deliberately not published as their own pages. Confirm with the country’s drug authority or your embassy.
- Aceh (Indonesia)
- Afghanistan
- Algeria
- American Samoa (US)
- Andorra
- Angola
- Anguilla (UK)
- Aruba (Netherlands)
- Azerbaijan
- Bangladesh
- Belize
- Benin
- Bermuda (UK)
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- British Virgin Islands (UK)
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Caribbean Netherlands (BES)
- Cayman Islands (UK)
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile
- China
- Comoros
- Congo
- Cook Islands
- Costa Rica
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Cuba
- Curaçao (Netherlands)
- Cyprus
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- DR Congo
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Falkland Islands (UK)
- Faroe Islands (Denmark)
- Fiji
- French Polynesia (France)
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Gibraltar (UK)
- Guam (US)
- Guatemala
- Guernsey (UK Crown Dependency)
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Holy See
- Isle of Man (UK Crown Dependency)
- Israel
- Jamaica
- Jersey (UK Crown Dependency)
- Kiribati
- Kosovo
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Liechtenstein
- Luxembourg
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Maldives
- Mali
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Micronesia
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montserrat (UK)
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- New Caledonia (France)
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Korea
- Northern Mariana Islands (US)
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Portugal
- Puerto Rico (US)
- Russia
- Rwanda
- Saint Helena (UK)
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- San Marino
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Sint Maarten (Netherlands)
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Korea
- South Sudan
- State of Palestine
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Tonga
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)
- Tuvalu
- U.S. Virgin Islands (US)
- Uganda
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe