Is Memantine legal in Sweden?
- Legal status
- Memantine is a prescription medicine (receptbelagt lakemedel, ATC N06DX01), not a narkotika: it is registered with Lakemedelsverket and does not appear on the LVFS narcotics classification lists.
- Consequences if caught
- Memantine attracts no narkotikastrafflag penalty; dispensing this receptbelagt medicine without a prescription breaches medicines law only.
- If prescribed or medical
- Prescribed for moderate-to-severe Alzheimer's disease.
- Documentation
- Multiple memantine products (ratiopharm, Sandoz, Accord, Merz) are listed in the Lakemedelsverket medicines-facts register; carried lawfully with a prescription.
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