Is Methadone legal in Ukraine?

Legal status

Controlled in Ukraine by name, and it is the backbone of the country's opioid agonist treatment. Постанова № 770, таблиці I to IV, consolidated text read on 20 September 2026, prints «Метадон» at CAS 76-99-3 and record UKR-59 accepts that printed row; the heading is in sentence case here because the list prints in capitals. Both facts belong on the cell together, because a reader who sees only the listing will misjudge how the substance is actually encountered in Ukraine, and a reader who sees only the treatment programme will misjudge what carrying it across a border means. This source does not state which of таблиці I to IV the heading occupies, and the table is what sets the dispensing and record keeping regime.

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 carries a ceiling of twelve years of imprisonment, with no life sentence in the article. Because the heading at CAS 76-99-3 is matched, наказ МОЗ № 188 supplies the small, large and especially large bands. Take home doses in a treatment programme can amount to a substantial quantity of oral solution, which is precisely where a lawfully dispensed supply meets a grading band, and this source reproduces neither the figures nor any rule about dispensed medicine. 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.

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 76-99-3 and the usual carrier is a patient in continuing treatment. Whether a course dispensed abroad may be brought in, and under what permit, was not established in this source and was not researched. Arrange continuity with a Ukrainian programme in advance rather than relying on take home doses at the border.

Documentation

Carry the prescription, the original dispensing containers with the pharmacy or clinic label in the patient's own name, and a letter from the treating programme naming the active ingredient, the formulation, the daily dose, the duration of treatment, the number of doses carried and the prescriber's registration. Carry the clinic's contact details for verification. Keep doses in their labelled containers and declare them on arrival, because наказ МОЗ № 188 keys its bands to the heading at CAS 76-99-3 regardless of the clinical reason. Read on 20 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.