Is Heroin legal in Armenia?

Also known as: diacetylmorphine, smack

Legal status

Controlled in Armenia. The annex to Government Decision N 1129-Ն of 21 August 2003, at controlled lists 1 to 4, prints the entry «Հերոին», and record ARM-44 matches it to heroin on Chemical Abstracts number 561-27-3. The row relied on is that printed line and not point 1 of the decision, which only directs that the list be approved and names no substance. The version read was the current incorporation of N 1129-Ն read together with amendment N 334-Ն of 26 March 2026, which took effect on 27 March 2026. The terms this row was searched under were «heroin», all of them Latin script, and the line they reached is printed in Armenian script, so the logged term set does not by itself explain how the line was found and the search record is incomplete. That does not weaken the finding, because the finding rests on the printed entry and its registry number rather than on the search that reached them. The 2 term set recorded for this row collapses to 1 string once case is ignored, so the breadth it appears to claim is not breadth. The annex prints diacetylmorphine under its own Armenian name rather than treating it as a preparation of morphine, so it stands as its own line with its own Chemical Abstracts number.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Armenia has no death penalty and no life sentence for a drug offence. The entry relied on for heroin is «Հերոին». The ceiling is 12 years. Criminal Code article 393(3) provides a term of six to twelve years, and articles 393 and 396 carry the principal offences. That 12 year ceiling is the lowest of any country authored in this session, and it is the figure the article itself prints rather than a reading of a range. The quantity instrument prints this row as «0.006 to 0.03 g»; «>0.03 to 0.15 g»; «>0.15 to 0.75 g; especially large >0.75 g». A printed annex figure in Armenia is a small amount, not a threshold for the offence. The statutory multipliers at article 393(4) to (6) turn it into the significant, large and especially large bands.

If prescribed or medical

Armenia states no lawful personal use allowance for a scheduled substance, and Article 393(4) to (6) measures its significant, large and especially large bands from the minimum small amount figure the Government sets, which is a criminal threshold and never a traveller quota. A scheduled medicine must in addition satisfy the law on medicines, «Դեղերի մասին» Հայաստանի Հանրապետության օրենք, together with the prescription, packaging, import and customs rules that law carries. That is the country rule, and the placement it attaches to for heroin is the printed annex line «Հերոին», at controlled lists 1 to 4, record ARM-44. The dossier read for Armenia states no separate traveller allowance, no personal import quota and no per substance medical route, so none is stated here and anything beyond the country rule is left to the Armenian Ministry of Health. There is no medical route to ask about in most systems and the question worth putting is whether Armenia recognises any, because the annex line carries no preparation limb that would show one.

Documentation

Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging for any medicine containing heroin, with a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and put the question to the Armenian Ministry of Health or the nearest Armenian embassy in writing before travelling rather than at the border. The placement carried against is the printed annex line «Հերոին», record ARM-44, Chemical Abstracts number 561-27-3. It was read on 20 September 2026 against the current incorporation of N 1129-Ն read together with amendment N 334-Ն of 26 March 2026, which took effect on 27 March 2026. There is no ordinary paperwork for this substance, and the annex line carries no preparation limb that would create one.

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