Is GHB legal in Ukraine?

Legal status

Controlled in Ukraine, and the heading names a salt rather than the acid. Постанова № 770, таблиці I to IV, consolidated text read on 20 September 2026, prints «Оксибутират натрію (ГОМК)» at CAS 591-81-1 and record UKR-43 accepts that row; the heading is in sentence case here because the list prints in capitals. The bracketed Cyrillic abbreviation in the heading is the list's own. The precision of the heading is the point of this cell. It is written to the sodium salt, and this source does not state whether the free acid, another salt or the lactone are reached by it; the lactone was in fact left unresolved at record UKR-42 of the same source. So the substance is listed and the boundary of the heading is unread.printed heading names the acid and not a salt. The перелік approved by Постанова Кабінету Міністрів України № 770, in the redaction of 13 September 2025, prints the row «GHB» against the chemical name «γ-оксимасляна кислота» in Таблиця III, Список № 2, headed «Психотропні речовини, обіг яких обмежено і стосовно яких допускаються виключення деяких заходів контролю». It sits between Циклобарбітал and Золпідем (INN). The applied cell has this the wrong way round: it reported a heading «Оксибутират натрію (ГОМК)» written to the sodium salt at a registry number, and neither that string nor any registry number is printed in this list. The lactone is not unresolved either. «Гама-бутиролактон» is printed as its own row in the same Список № 2, and the Примітка to that list says the list does not include gamma butyrolactone where it makes up no more than 15 percent of a plant protection product holding a state registration certificate from Міндовкілля. The same Примітка extends the list to the salts of everything in it where such salts can exist. Read on 21 September 2026.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Ukraine has no death penalty. The trade article the source names is Кримінальний кодекс України, стаття 307, whose third part sets a ceiling of twelve years of imprisonment, with no life sentence in the article. Because the heading at CAS 591-81-1 is matched, наказ МОЗ № 188 supplies the small, large and especially large bands. This substance is usually encountered as a dilute aqueous solution, so whether the band is applied to the volume of liquid or to the assayed content of the salt decides the grading, and this source answers neither question, so no figure and no method is stated here. No separate possession article is named. Separately from that, and carried forward from this site's published Ukraine entry rather than re-derived from the Code in this pass, the published penalties are these. Personal use of a small amount is administrative under article 44 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, a fine of 25 to 50 tax free minimum incomes, 20 to 60 hours of community service, or administrative arrest of up to 15 days. Above small, personal use under article 309 is criminal, a fine, correctional labour of up to two years, or restriction of liberty of up to five years, rising to up to three years where aggravated or large and up to eight years where a minor is involved. Trafficking or sale under article 307 draws four to twelve years with property forfeiture. Smuggling under article 305 draws five to eight years, and up to eight to ten years aggravated. The published entry records the small, large and especially large quantity thresholds as very low, and that trace amounts have triggered article 309. Drug use itself, other than in public, is not criminal there. Every figure in this paragraph is a penalty range or a fine and none of them is a quantity threshold. They describe the offences that this row's placement in the Ukrainian list brings into play.The matched row is «GHB» against «γ-оксимасляна кислота» in Таблиця III, Список № 2, so наказ МОЗ № 188 supplies the small, large and especially large bands for that row. This substance is usually encountered as a dilute aqueous solution, so whether the band is applied to the volume of liquid or to the assayed content decides the grading, and this source answers neither question, so no figure and no method is stated here. A product described as the lactone has its own printed row in the same list and is graded on that row instead. No separate possession article is named.

If prescribed or medical

Ukraine allows no personal use quantity, наказ МОЗ № 188 grades criminal conduct rather than licensing carriage, and a scheduled medicine must additionally satisfy Закон України «Про лікарські засоби» on prescription, packaging, import and customs. On this row the placement is a matched heading at CAS 591-81-1. This salt has a genuine licensed medical use for narcolepsy and for alcohol withdrawal in some countries, and this source establishes no Ukrainian authorised product, no import permit and no recognition of a foreign prescription. None was researched. A patient on this medicine should settle the route in advance rather than at the border.The placement on this row is the printed row «GHB» against «γ-оксимасляна кислота» in Таблиця III, Список № 2, and that list is the one for psychotropic substances of restricted circulation from which some control measures may be excepted. This substance has a genuine licensed medical use for narcolepsy and for alcohol withdrawal in some countries, and this source establishes no Ukrainian authorised product, no import permit and no recognition of a foreign prescription. None was researched. A patient on this medicine should settle the route in advance rather than at the border.

Documentation

Carry the prescription, the original dispensing pack with the pharmacy label in the patient's own name, and a prescriber's letter naming the salt, the concentration, the nightly dose, the treatment period, the diagnosis and the total volume carried. State the salt precisely, because the Ukrainian heading at CAS 591-81-1 is written to the sodium form and the source does not say what else it reaches. Do not transfer the liquid to an unlabelled bottle. Declare it on arrival. The heading was read in the consolidated list on 20 September 2026.ubstance, the concentration, the nightly dose, the treatment period, the diagnosis and the total volume carried. Name the acid, because the Ukrainian row is written to the acid, «γ-оксимасляна кислота», under the short heading «GHB», and the Примітка to that list carries its salts across. Do not transfer the liquid to an unlabelled bottle. Declare it on arrival. The rows were read on 21 September 2026.

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