Is Heroin legal in Belarus?

Also known as: diacetylmorphine, smack

Legal status

Heroin is controlled in Belarus. The annexes to Постановление Министерства здравоохранения № 19 от 11 февраля 2015 г. республиканский перечень print the entry «ГЕРОИН» in Cyrillic script, and registry number 561-27-3 is what fixes which molecule that entry catches. The entry is printed in Cyrillic under its own name, separately from the opium preparation printed at «ОПИЙ» and from the parent alkaloid printed at «МОРФИН». The terms taken to the annexes were "heroin", "HEROIN", and the row accepted was the printed entry itself rather than the paragraph that establishes the list, because the schedule owns the substance entries and the offence article does not. The version read was № 19/2015 with the official 2025 and 10 March 2026 amendments, record BEL-44.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Belarus retains capital punishment as a country, and that is exactly why this line has to be read carefully rather than skimmed: no drug offence in Criminal Code articles 327 to 328 with a superscript one carries it. The entry relied on for heroin is «Героин». The ceiling for a drug offence is 25 years. Criminal Code article 328(5) provides a term of twelve to twenty-five years. That is the top of the drug scale and it is not death. A source that reports three quantity bands for Belarus has read another country's structure into it. Resolution No. 606 gives one. The quantity instrument prints this row as «instrument gives no significant band»; «large size: over 1.0 g»; «instrument gives no separate especially-large band». Resolution No. 606 gives a large-size figure and nothing else. Where this row says the instrument gives no significant band or no especially large band, that is the instrument's own silence and not a gap in the reading.

If prescribed or medical

The traveller rule is stated at country level and it is the same for every substance in this set: Belarus provides no lawful personal use allowance and no traveller exemption, and a scheduled medicine has to satisfy Закон Республики Беларусь «О лекарственных средствах» as well as the narcotics annexes, meaning prescription, original packaging, and import and customs formalities. This row's placement is the printed entry «ГЕРОИН» in the республиканский перечень, record BEL-44, so any medicinal route runs through that placement. A criminal quantity band is not a lawful traveller allowance. The source states no medical route specific to heroin and none is supplied here. The placement is this entry, distinct from the opium preparation and the parent alkaloid, each of which is placed separately.

Documentation

Carry it only with the Belarusian prescription and dispensing paperwork the medicines law requires, in the original dispensing packaging, with the substance named on any declaration the way the annex names it, «ГЕРОИН», and with registry number 561-27-3 available if the name is queried. The placement at BEL-44 was read against № 19/2015 with the official 2025 and 10 March 2026 amendments on 20 September 2026. A later amendment can change an entry, so recheck the annexes before travel rather than relying on the date on this cell. Name this substance rather than describing it as an opium derivative, because the preparation and the parent alkaloid are separate printed rows.

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