Legality
Modafinil legal status by country
Also known as: provigil
Countries where the legal status of Modafinil 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 Modafinil in that country, including consequences and the primary source.
- Aceh (Indonesia)Prescription/hard medicine under national law (obat keras); the Aceh qanun does not cover pharmaceuticals;...
- AlbaniaModafinil is not listed in the narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë...
- Antigua and BarbudaNot listed, although the stimulants that are listed sit close by. This is a positive finding of absence and...
- 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. Modafinil 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....
- BelarusModafinil is regulated in Belarus, and it is regulated somewhere other than the narcotics annexes. The route...
- BelgiumModafinil 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 65 of lista B1, psychotropic substances, and it reads in full:...
- BruneiNot a controlled drug in Brunei. Absent from Part I, Part II, Part III and Part IIIA of the First Schedule to...
- BulgariaNot listed. Modafinil is not a named entry of Списък I, Списък II or Списък III of the Наредба за реда за...
- CanadaPrescription drug on the Prescription Drug List. Not scheduled under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act...
- ChinaCategory II psychotropic (reclassified 2023) under the controlled-psychotropic catalogue; a controlled drug...
- ColombiaNot listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for modafinilo or modafinil as at 27...
- CroatiaModafinil is not named in the Popis droga, psihotropnih tvari i biljaka iz kojih se može dobiti droga te...
- CzechiaNot listed. Modafinil 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. Modafinil has no entry. It is a benzhydryl sulphinyl acetamide, a structure with no counterpart...
- EgyptNot listed in any table of Egypt's Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, as at 3 October 2026, under Ministry of...
- EstoniaModafinil is a controlled substance in Estonia. The national schedule is Annex 1 to Minister of Social...
- FinlandNot a narcotic in Finland. Modafinil is not named in any annex of valtioneuvoston asetus huumausaineina...
- FranceModafinil is not carried by either French closed list. The dossier's finding for this row is recorded in the...
- GeorgiaModafinil is not carried on Georgia's narcotics lists and it is not therefore unregulated. The dossier...
- GermanyModafinil is not scheduled in Germany. The search ran on 20 September 2026 under „Modafinil“ across BtMG...
- GhanaModafinil is not a controlled drug under the Narcotics Control Commission Act 2020 (Act 1019): it is not...
- GreeceControlled narcotic under Law 4139/2013. Modafinil is entry 74 of ΠΙΝΑΚΑΣ Δ, the fourth table, an entry that...
- 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. Modafinil, searched also...
- HungaryControlled. Modafinil is a named entry of the P2 jegyzék carried in the 2. melléklet to 78/2022. (XII. 28.)...
- IcelandControlled in Iceland. It is printed in Fylgiskjal I as "Modafinil", and the row identifies it by the printed...
- 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...
- IranModafinil 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. Modafinil appears nowhere in the ten schedules, and neither does...
- 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...
- JapanModafinil is a 向精神薬, a psychotropic, designated by Cabinet Order in Japan under 麻薬及び向精神薬取締法別表第三第十一号. The...
- JordanWhether Modafinil is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and...
- KazakhstanModafinil is named in Kazakhstan's controlled list. The first of the three documents Government Resolution...
- 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. Modafinil is in no table of Group 1 or Group 2...
- KyrgyzstanControlled in Kyrgyzstan. Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 152 of 26 March 2025 names modafinil in its...
- LaosPrescription medicine, NOT on the Lao MoH List of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (not scheduled).
- LatviaModafinil 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...
- LithuaniaModafinil is controlled in Lithuania. Order No. 5 names modafinil. The entry relied on reads «Modafinilis...
- MacauNot listed in Macau. Modafinil is named in none of Tables I to VI of Law 17/2009 as replaced in full by Law...
- MalaysiaModafinil is a psychotropic substance under the Poisons Act 1952, named in the Third Schedule and in the...
- MaldivesPrescription medicine (MFDA), NOT among the Drug Act (Law 17/2011) Schedule One abuse substances.
- MaltaWhich Maltese ordinance governs modafinil is not established. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that...
- MexicoModafinil is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General...
- MoldovaControlled in Moldova. Modafinil is in Table III, «Tabelul național III. Substanțe, plante și medicamente...
- 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. Modafinil was searched for across...
- NetherlandsModafinil 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. Modafinil, a...
- NigeriaPrescription medicine, not a scheduled narcotic. Modafinil is not separately listed under the National Drug...
- North MacedoniaNot a controlled drug under the classification lists. The lists carry no row for модафинил, and the...
- NorwayNot controlled as narkotika in Norway. Modafinil 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: modafinil is not listed in the Dangerous Drugs Board's Updated Lists...
- PolandNot named in the Polish national list. Modafinil appears in none of the three annexes, so it is neither a...
- PortugalPrescription-only medicine (INFARMED), NOT on the Decreto-Lei 15/93 estupefacientes/psicotrópicos tables.
- QatarModafinil 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...
- RomaniaModafinil is not controlled in Romania, and that is a completed finding rather than an open question. The...
- RussiaControlled in Russia. Decree 681 lists modafinil at the entry «Модафинил» (in English, modafinil), and 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...
- Saudi ArabiaModafinil is a controlled psychotropic substance in Saudi Arabia, placed at Schedule II Category E of the...
- SerbiaModafinil is not a named entry on the Serbian controlled substance list. The dossier records a negative check...
- SingaporeNot a controlled drug under this Act. Modafinil is in no Part of the First Schedule. The only match for the...
- SlovakiaModafinil 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 5 substance under the Medicines and Related Substances Act 101 of 1965, as at the...
- South KoreaPrescription-only medicine (MFDS), NOT a narcotic/psychotropic under the Narcotics Control Act (not...
- SpainNot a controlled substance on the text read: Modafinil 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...
- SwedenControlled. Modafinil is named in Förteckning IV of the Swedish narkotikaförteckningar, which are...
- SwitzerlandNot scheduled. The federal schedule ordinance BetmVV-EDI records no entry for modafinil. The German search...
- TaiwanCategory 4 narcotic (第四級毒品) under Taiwan's Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act (毒品危害防制條例), named at...
- ThailandModafinil is not named in Thailand's criminal drug schedules. A substance specific sweep, run in Thai and by...
- Trinidad and TobagoModafinil is not a dangerous drug under Chap. 11:25: it is not listed in the First or Second Schedule, as the...
- TurkeyModafinil is absent from Turkey's closed narcotics list. The dossier ran a completed list search, «Arama...
- U.S. Virgin Islands (US)Modafinil is controlled federally. Federal Schedule IV under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR...
- UkraineGoverned in Ukraine as a medicine rather than as a scheduled substance, on this reading. Record UKR-65...
- United KingdomNot a controlled drug. Modafinil is not named in Schedule 2 to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 as in force on 2...
- United StatesControlled. Schedule IV under the Controlled Substances Act, at 21 CFR 1308.14(f)(7). Listed by name. This...
- UruguayControlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025,...
- VietnamNot named in the danh mục. Modafinil is not found in the current narcotic/precursor appendix, so the...
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Not individually verified
For these 133 countries the governing national drug law is known and cited, but we have not verified that Modafinil 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.
- 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
- 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
- Hong Kong
- Isle of Man (UK Crown Dependency)
- Israel
- Jamaica
- Jersey (UK Crown Dependency)
- Kiribati
- Kosovo
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Liechtenstein
- Luxembourg
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Micronesia
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montserrat (UK)
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- New Caledonia (France)
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- North Korea
- Northern Mariana Islands (US)
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Puerto Rico (US)
- Rwanda
- Saint Helena (UK)
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- San Marino
- Sao Tome and Principe
- 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
- Uganda
- United Arab Emirates
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe