Gabapentin in Samoa: not individually verified

Also known as: neurontin

We have not confirmed that Gabapentin specifically is scheduled in Samoa, 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. Gabapentin is not named in the First, Second or Third Schedule (Class A, B or C narcotics respectively) to the Narcotics Act 1967, the official version as at 31 December 2023. A case insensitive search of the full cached text of the Act, including the chemical and common name terms "gabapentin" and "1-(aminomethyl)cyclohexaneacetic acid", returned no match in any Schedule. The Fourth Schedule, controlled precursors, also does not name it. Gabapentin is a gabapentinoid anticonvulsant used internationally for epilepsy and neuropathic pain; it has no narcotic pharmacology of the kind the Act's Schedules are built around, which is consistent with, though not proof of, its absence from them. The Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), the official version as at 31 December 2023, is the authority for the position stated. Whether a later Gazette amendment or a Head of State Order under section 5 of the Act has varied it since that date could not be established from the sources searched this session, so the position given is as at the version read and is not asserted as current beyond it.

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