Is Gabapentin legal in Spain?
- Legal status
- Not controlled in Spain as an estupefaciente or a sustancia psicotrópica. Gabapentin is named in neither Anexo 1 nor Anexo 2 of Real Decreto 2829/1977, and it is not in the 1961 Convention lists that Ley 17/1967 artículo segundo incorporates. Searched in Spanish as gabapentina. It is a prescription medicine. Anexo 1 of Real Decreto 2829/1977 is an enumerated table with no generic or structural clause, and Anexo 2 is a further enumerated national list. Absence from an enumerated list is therefore an answer rather than a silence, subject to artículo primero, which extends control to substances «que en futuro puedan ser incorporadas a las Listas o la Relación».
- Consequences if caught
- Neither Ley 17/1967 nor Real Decreto 2829/1977 reaches it, so the Código Penal articles 368 to 378 do not apply to it as a drug offence.
- If prescribed or medical
- Spain runs two medicine regimes side by side. A narcotic medicine is handled under Ley 17/1967 and its implementing rules, and a psychotropic medicine under Real Decreto 2829/1977, which requires a special prescription and a pharmacy register for the stricter lists.
- Documentation
- Carry any prescribed medicine in its dispensed packaging with the prescription. Spain's personal import allowance for a traveller was not read for this cell, so no quantity is stated.
- Spain, Real Decreto 2829/1977, de 6 de octubre, Anexo 1, read as the BOE consolidated text whose own note reads «Última actualización publicada el 21/04/2026»
- empowering provision quoted: «Artículo primero. Uno. Las sustancias psicotrópicas a que se refieren las Listas I, II, III y IV del anexo uno y la «Relación de sustancias no incluidas en dichas Listas» del anexo dos, a que se refiere el artículo quinto, o bien que en futuro puedan ser incorporadas a las Listas o la Relación, así como los preparados (especialidades farmacéuticas o fórmulas magistrales) que las contengan, quedan sometidos a cuanto se previene en la presente disposición.»
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- offences in the Código Penal (Ley Orgánica 10/1995) articles 368 to 378
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Court records
We have not yet assessed whether court records are publicly available for this jurisdiction.
Other substances confirmed in Spain
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