Legality
Memantine legal status by country
Also known as: namenda
Countries where the legal status of Memantine has been confirmed against a primary source. Legal information, not legal advice; drug laws change, so confirm with the destination’s embassy or drug authority before you travel.
Confirmed legal status
Each row links to the full detail for Memantine in that country, including consequences and the primary source.
- AlbaniaMemantine is not listed in the narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë...
- Antigua and BarbudaNot listed, and no NMDA antagonist is. This is a positive finding of absence and not a deferral. The terms...
- ArgentinaNot scheduled as an estupefaciente. Every one of the 886 numbered rows of the current Anexo I was searched by...
- ArmeniaGoverned in Armenia through «Դեղերի մասին» Հայաստանի Հանրապետության օրենք rather than through the narcotics...
- AustraliaPrescription only medicine under the Poisons Standard; no Commonwealth criminal drug status. F2026L01327...
- AustriaNot a designated drug in Austria, and controlled instead as a prescription medicine. The placement is the...
- BahamasNot listed in the Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Act (Application) Order, 1994 (S.I. 77 of 1994) as those...
- BahrainNot a controlled drug on the text read. Memantine is not named in any of the twelve tables annexed to...
- BarbadosNot a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap....
- BelarusMemantine is regulated in Belarus, and it is regulated somewhere other than the narcotics annexes. The route...
- BelgiumMemantine is not a named controlled drug in Belgium, and the position that applies to it is a medicines or...
- BrazilControlled in Brazil. The entry read is item 113 of lista C1, the list of other substances subject to special...
- BruneiNot a controlled drug in Brunei. Absent from Part I, Part II, Part III and Part IIIA of the First Schedule to...
- BulgariaNot listed. Memantine is not a named entry of Списък I, Списък II or Списък III of the Наредба за реда за...
- CanadaMemantine is a prescription drug (Schedule D / prescription drug list), not a controlled substance: it is...
- ColombiaNot listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for memantina or memantine as at 27...
- CroatiaMemantine is not named in the Popis droga, psihotropnih tvari i biljaka iz kojih se može dobiti droga te...
- CzechiaNot listed. Memantine is not printed as an entry in any of the eight seznamy of nařízení vlády č. 463/2013...
- DenmarkNot a euphoriant under the Danish euphoriants legislation: it is not named in liste A, B, C, D or E of...
- Dominican RepublicNot listed. Memantine has no entry. It is an aminoadamantane acting at the NMDA receptor, and no adamantane...
- EgyptNot listed in any table of Egypt's Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, as at 3 October 2026. Memantine, an...
- EstoniaMemantine is not listed in the Estonian narcotic and psychotropic schedule. It is governed instead by the...
- FinlandNot a narcotic in Finland. Memantine is not named in any annex of valtioneuvoston asetus huumausaineina...
- FranceMemantine is not carried by either French closed list. The dossier's finding for this row is recorded in the...
- GeorgiaMemantine is not carried on Georgia's narcotics lists and it is not therefore unregulated. The dossier...
- GermanyMemantine is not scheduled in Germany. The search ran on 20 September 2026 under „Memantin; Memantine“ across...
- GhanaMemantine is not a controlled drug under the Narcotics Control Commission Act 2020 (Act 1019): it is not...
- GreeceNot listed in the Greek narcotics tables. Memantine is printed at no entry of ΠΙΝΑΚΑΣ Α, Β, Γ or Δ in the...
- GrenadaNot listed in the First Schedule to the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Chapter 84A, as that...
- HondurasNot a controlled drug for the purposes of Articles 311 to 313 of the Código Penal. Memantine, searched also...
- Hong KongNot a dangerous drug under the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Cap. 134). Controlled as a medicine under the...
- HungaryNot listed. Memantine is not a named entry of the K1 or K2 jegyzék in the 1. melléklet, of the P1, P2, P3 or...
- IcelandNot a controlled substance in Iceland's narcotics list. Memantine is not named in Fylgiskjal I, searched as...
- IndiaNo Indian placement was found for it: it is not named in the Act's Schedule (list of psychotropic...
- IndonesiaNot a narkotika and not a psikotropika under Indonesia's Undang-Undang Nomor 35 Tahun 2009 tentang Narkotika...
- IranMemantine has no entry of its own in Iran’s recovered drug instruments: it is not named in the Anti-Narcotics...
- IraqNot listed as at 22 September 2026. Memantine appears nowhere in the ten schedules. It is not named in any of...
- IrelandNot a controlled drug in Ireland. The placement recorded for this row is: No controlled-drug schedule; 2010...
- ItalyNot scheduled. A search of the closed tables I to IV and the table of medicinal products under article 14 of...
- JapanMemantine is not a controlled substance in Japan. Memantine, an adamantane amine, is in none of the lists,...
- JordanWhether Memantine is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and...
- KazakhstanMemantine is not controlled by Kazakhstan's Resolution No. 470, on the version of the lists read for this...
- KenyaNot a controlled drug under Cap. 245 on the text read: it is not named in the First Schedule of narcotic...
- KuwaitNot a controlled narcotic or psychotropic substance in Kuwait. Memantine is in no table of Group 1 or Group 2...
- LatviaMemantine is not listed in the Latvian controlled substances annex. Annex 2 to the law on the entry into...
- LebanonNot a controlled substance under Law 673 of 16 March 1998 on the version read: it is not named in the four...
- LithuaniaMemantine is not listed in the Lithuanian narcotic and psychotropic lists. Health Minister Order No. 5 is the...
- MacauNot listed in Macau. Memantine is named in none of Tables I to VI of Law 17/2009 as replaced in full by Law...
- MalaysiaMemantine is a prescription poison under the Poisons Act 1952, listed in the Poisons List by name with «All...
- MaltaWhich Maltese ordinance governs memantine is not established. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that...
- MexicoMemantine is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General...
- MoldovaNot in Moldova's national tables of controlled substances as at 3 October 2026. Memantine, searched as...
- MontenegroNot listed in Montenegro's narcotics and psychotropics schedule, and placed instead under Zakon o ljekovima,...
- MyanmarNot listed in Myanmar's narcotic or psychotropic notifications. Memantine was searched for across...
- NetherlandsMemantine is not named in lijst I, lijst IA or lijst II. No Opiumwet offence arises from it as such, and the...
- New ZealandNot a controlled drug on the text cited, and the absence was tested rather than assumed. Memantine, an NMDA...
- North MacedoniaNot a controlled drug under the classification lists. The lists carry no row for мемантин, and the instrument...
- NorwayNot controlled as narkotika in Norway. Memantine is not a row on the narkotikaliste, and it is not reached by...
- OmanNot listed in the annex to the Law on Combating Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances issued by Royal Decree...
- PhilippinesNot a dangerous drug on the text read: memantine is not listed in the Dangerous Drugs Board's Updated Lists...
- PolandNot named in the Polish national list. Memantine appears in none of the three annexes, so it is neither a...
- PortugalMemantine is an authorised prescription medicine (medicamento sujeito a receita medica), not a controlled...
- QatarMemantine is not named in Table 1, Table 2 or Table 4 of Law No. 9 of 1987, and it is on none of the three...
- RomaniaMemantine is not controlled in Romania, and that is a completed finding rather than an open question. The...
- Saint LuciaNot a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II...
- SerbiaMemantine is not a named entry on the Serbian controlled substance list. The dossier records a negative check...
- SingaporeNot a controlled drug under this Act. Memantine is in no Part of the First Schedule. The Fifth Schedule, Part...
- SlovakiaMemantine is not listed in the Slovak narcotic and psychotropic schedule. Act No. 139/1998 carries one closed...
- SloveniaNot named in the annex. A search of every named row of the annex to the Uredba o razvrstitvi prepovedanih...
- South AfricaControlled as a Schedule 4 substance under the Medicines and Related Substances Act 101 of 1965, as at the...
- South KoreaMemantine is a prescription drug (jeonmun-uiyakpum), not a controlled drug: memantine products are registered...
- SpainNot a controlled substance on the text read: Memantine is not named in Anexo 1 or Anexo 2 of Real Decreto...
- Sri LankaNot a dangerous drug under Sri Lanka's Poisons, Opium and Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Chapter 218): absent...
- SwedenNot named in the Swedish narkotikaförteckningar, which are Läkemedelsverkets föreskrifter (LVFS 2011:10) om...
- SwitzerlandNot scheduled. The federal schedule ordinance BetmVV-EDI records no entry for memantine. The German search...
- TaiwanNot controlled as a narcotic under Taiwan's Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act (毒品危害防制條例): absent from all four...
- ThailandMemantine is not named in Thailand's criminal drug schedules. A substance specific sweep, run in Thai and by...
- Trinidad and TobagoMemantine is not a dangerous drug under Chap. 11:25: it is not listed in the First or Second Schedule, as the...
- TurkeyMemantine is absent from Turkey's closed narcotics list. The dossier ran a completed list search, «Arama...
- UkraineGoverned in Ukraine as a medicine rather than as a scheduled substance. Record UKR-56 reports that Постанова...
- United KingdomNot a controlled drug. Memantine is not named in Schedule 2 to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 as in force on 2...
- United StatesNot a federally controlled substance. It is in no schedule of 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 and no federal drug...
- UruguayNot placed, and the finding now rests on the current list rather than a superseded one. memantine is not...
- VietnamNot named in the danh mục. Memantine is not named in Lists I to IV and is not the listed phencyclidine...
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Not individually verified
For these 141 countries the governing national drug law is known and cited, but we have not verified that Memantine specifically is scheduled under it. These are not legal answers and are deliberately not published as their own pages. Confirm with the country’s drug authority or your embassy.
- Aceh (Indonesia)
- Afghanistan
- Algeria
- American Samoa (US)
- Andorra
- Angola
- Anguilla (UK)
- Aruba (Netherlands)
- Azerbaijan
- Bangladesh
- Belize
- Benin
- Bermuda (UK)
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- British Virgin Islands (UK)
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Caribbean Netherlands (BES)
- Cayman Islands (UK)
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile
- China
- Comoros
- Congo
- Cook Islands
- Costa Rica
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Cuba
- Curaçao (Netherlands)
- Cyprus
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- DR Congo
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Falkland Islands (UK)
- Faroe Islands (Denmark)
- Fiji
- French Polynesia (France)
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Gibraltar (UK)
- Guam (US)
- Guatemala
- Guernsey (UK Crown Dependency)
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Holy See
- Isle of Man (UK Crown Dependency)
- Israel
- Jamaica
- Jersey (UK Crown Dependency)
- Kiribati
- Kosovo
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Liechtenstein
- Luxembourg
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Maldives
- Mali
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Micronesia
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montserrat (UK)
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- New Caledonia (France)
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Korea
- Northern Mariana Islands (US)
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Puerto Rico (US)
- Russia
- Rwanda
- Saint Helena (UK)
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- San Marino
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Sint Maarten (Netherlands)
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- State of Palestine
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Tonga
- Tunisia
- Turkmenistan
- Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)
- Tuvalu
- U.S. Virgin Islands (US)
- Uganda
- United Arab Emirates
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe