Is Gabapentin legal in Greece?

Legal status

Not listed in the Greek narcotics tables. Gabapentin is in no table, in the Ministry of Health consolidated edition of June 2026.

Consequences if caught

Gabapentin is in no table, so the trafficking and possession articles of Law 4139/2013 do not reach it as a listed narcotic. That is not a finding that it is lawful, and the reason matters. Article 1 paragraph 1 of Law 4139/2013 defines ναρκωτικά by what a substance does, by its action on the central nervous system and its capacity to cause dependence, and article 1 paragraph 2 then says those substances περιλαμβάνονται ιδίως στους πίνακες, are included in particular in the tables. The word ιδίως, in particular, is not the word a closed list takes. Against that, article 20 paragraph 2 defines the trafficking offence by reference to substances που αναφέρονται στους πίνακες, referred to in the tables. So the statute points two ways at once and this cell does not pretend to resolve it. Conduct distinction. Greece sorts these offences by what was done, not by which table the substance sits in. Article 29 paragraph 1 punishes obtaining, holding, using or growing for the offender's own exclusive use with φυλάκιση μέχρι πέντε (5) μηνών, imprisonment of up to five months. There is no fixed gram threshold anywhere in the law; the court weighs the type, the purity, the quantity, the frequency and duration of use, the daily dose and the particular needs of the user. Article 29 paragraph 2 allows the court to leave the offender ατιμώρητος, unpunished, where the act was entirely occasional and unlikely to be repeated, and paragraph 3 keeps such a conviction off the copies of the criminal record that are issued. Article 20 paragraph 1 punishes trafficking with κάθειρξη τουλάχιστον οκτώ (8) ετών, at least eight years, plus a fine of up to three hundred thousand euro. Article 22 raises that to at least ten years and a fine of fifty thousand to five hundred thousand euro where the offence is committed by an official, inside a school, barracks, police cell, prison or sports ground, within a criminal organisation, or by a repeat offender. Article 21 drops it to up to three years for a dependent person trafficking small amounts to cover their own use, or for supplying a relative without profit. Article 30 paragraph 4 treats dependence as a separate track: an article 29 offence goes unpunished, an article 20 offence falls to at least one year, and an article 22 offence falls to at most ten years. Capital and life exposure. Greece abolished the death penalty for all crimes and none of these offences carries it. The ceiling is life imprisonment, and it is article 23 of Law 4139/2013 that carries it. Article 23 paragraph 1 opens Με ισόβια κάθειρξη ή με πρόσκαιρη κάθειρξη τουλάχιστον δέκα ετών, life imprisonment or a determinate sentence of at least ten years, with a fine of fifty thousand to six hundred thousand euro, and it applies where the substance can cause grievous bodily harm and did cause grievous harm or death to another or endangered the health of many, or where an adult acts professionally to bring a minor into use. Article 23 paragraph 2 opens Με ισόβια κάθειρξη, καθώς και με χρηματική ποινή από πενήντα χιλιάδες ευρώ μέχρι ένα εκατομμύριο ευρώ τιμωρείται, and states no lesser alternative, so life is the only sentence the article offers. It applies to professional financing or professional trafficking where the expected gain exceeds seventy five thousand euro, and to using weapons during the offence or to escape. Because no table entry attaches, none of those articles is engaged on the table route for this substance, and no quantity threshold arises.

If prescribed or medical

Gabapentin is not in the tables, so the narcotics prescribing chapter of Law 4139/2013 does not govern it. A separate medicines or registration rule may still apply, and a prescribing rule is never a criminal schedule.

Documentation

There is no narcotics paperwork to carry for this substance, because it is not in the tables. Carry the original container and the pharmacy label for any medicine you travel with, and a doctor's letter if it was prescribed, because a customs officer decides from what is in front of them. Where the rule comes from. The offences are in Law 4139/2013, the narcotics code, gazette A 74 of 20 March 2013. The substance lists are not in it. Article 1 paragraph 2 provides that the substances περιλαμβάνονται ιδίως στους πίνακες Α΄, Β΄, Γ΄ και Δ΄, οι οποίοι αναφέρονται στην παρ. 2 του άρθρου 1 του ν. 3459/2006, and article 1 paragraph 4 gives the power to change them: Με κοινή απόφαση των Υπουργών Υγείας και Δικαιοσύνης, by joint decision of the Ministers of Health and of Justice, after the opinion of the Narcotics Committee, substances may be added, removed or moved between categories. The table read for this cell is the Ministry of Health consolidated edition of June 2026, which carries 375 entries across the four tables and names, against every single entry, the gazette that placed it there. Twenty eight instruments appear in it. The most recent is gazette 3277 B of 11 June 2026. Placement for Gabapentin: in no table.

Drug laws and enforcement change and vary within a country. This is not legal advice. Always confirm with Greece’s embassy or official drug authority before traveling; penalties can be severe, including imprisonment.