Legality
Phenibut legal status by country
Also known as: noofen
Countries where the legal status of Phenibut 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 Phenibut in that country, including consequences and the primary source.
- Antigua and BarbudaNot listed, and no GABA analogue is. This is a positive finding of absence and not a deferral. The terms...
- ArgentinaControlled. Named individually in Anexo I, Fila 478 of Decreto 560/2019 as substituted by Decreto 122/2026,...
- AustraliaProhibited under the Poisons Standard and a prohibited import; not a Criminal Code drug. F2026L01327 names...
- AustriaControlled in Austria under the new psychoactive substances regime, and not as a narcotic or a psychotrope....
- 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. Phenibut 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....
- BrazilControlled in Brazil. The entry read is item 5 of lista F4, other substances within lista F, the list of...
- BruneiNot a controlled drug in Brunei. Absent from Part I, Part II, Part III and Part IIIA of the First Schedule to...
- BulgariaNot listed. Phenibut is not a named entry of Списък I, Списък II or Списък III of the Наредба за реда за...
- ColombiaNot listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for fenibut, phenibut or acido...
- CroatiaPhenibut is a psihotropna tvar, a psychotropic substance, in Croatia. The Popis droga, psihotropnih tvari i...
- CzechiaPhenibut is a psychotropní látka, a psychotropic substance, in Czechia. Nařízení vlády č. 463/2013 Sb. o...
- DenmarkNot a euphoriant under the Danish euphoriants legislation: it is not named in liste A, B, C, D or E of...
- Dominican RepublicNot listed. Phenibut has no entry. It is a phenylated derivative of gamma-aminobutyric acid, and no compound...
- EstoniaPhenibut is not listed in the Estonian narcotic and psychotropic schedule. It is governed instead by the...
- FinlandNot a narcotic in Finland. Phenibut is not named in any annex of valtioneuvoston asetus huumausaineina...
- FrancePhenibut is not carried by either French closed list. The dossier's finding for this row is recorded in the...
- GhanaPhenibut is not a controlled drug under the Narcotics Control Commission Act 2020 (Act 1019): it is not named...
- GreeceNot listed in the Greek narcotics tables. Phenibut 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. Phenibut, searched also as...
- HungaryControlled. Phenibut is a named entry of the új pszichoaktív anyagok jegyzéke carried in the 3. melléklet to...
- IcelandControlled in Iceland. It is printed in Fylgiskjal I as "Phenibut", 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...
- IranPhenibut 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. Phenibut appears nowhere in the ten schedules under any Latin or Arabic...
- 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...
- JapanPhenibut is not a controlled substance in Japan. Phenibut is 4-amino-3-phenylbutanoic acid, a...
- JordanWhether Phenibut is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and...
- KazakhstanPhenibut is not controlled by Kazakhstan's Resolution No. 470, on the version of the lists read for this row....
- 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. Phenibut is in no table of Group 1 or Group 2...
- LatviaPhenibut is not listed in the Latvian controlled substances annex. Annex 2 to the law on the entry into force...
- LebanonNot a controlled substance under Law 673 of 16 March 1998 on the version read: it is not named in the four...
- LithuaniaPhenibut is controlled in Lithuania. Order No. 5 names phenibut. The entry relied on reads «Fenibutas...
- MacauNot listed in Macau. Phenibut is named in none of Tables I to VI of Law 17/2009 as replaced in full by Law...
- MalaysiaPhenibut is named nowhere in the First Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 and nowhere in the Poisons...
- MaltaWhich Maltese ordinance governs phenibut is not established. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that...
- MexicoPhenibut is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General...
- MoldovaControlled in Moldova. Phenibut is in Table III, «Tabelul național III. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care...
- MyanmarNot listed in Myanmar's narcotic or psychotropic notifications. Phenibut was searched for across Notification...
- NetherlandsPhenibut 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. Phenibut, a...
- NorwayControlled in Norway. Phenibut is named in the narkotikaliste, the list made under section 4 of the Forskrift...
- 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: phenibut is not listed in the Dangerous Drugs Board's Updated Lists of...
- PolandNot named in the Polish national list. Phenibut appears in none of the three annexes, so it is not a...
- QatarPhenibut 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...
- RomaniaPhenibut 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...
- SingaporeNot a controlled drug and not a psychoactive substance under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1973. Phenibut is named...
- SlovakiaPhenibut is controlled in Slovakia. Annex 1 to Act No. 139/1998 names phenibut. The entry relied on reads...
- SloveniaControlled in Slovenia. The annex to the Uredba o razvrstitvi prepovedanih drog names fenibut at Group III,...
- SpainNot a controlled substance on the text read: Phenibut is not named in Anexo 1 or Anexo 2 of Real Decreto...
- 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 phenibut. 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...
- ThailandPhenibut is not named in Thailand's criminal drug schedules. A substance specific sweep, run in Thai and by...
- Trinidad and TobagoPhenibut is not a dangerous drug under Chap. 11:25: it is not listed in the First or Second Schedule, as the...
- TurkeyPhenibut is absent from Turkey's closed narcotics list. The dossier ran a completed list search, «Arama...
- United KingdomNot a controlled drug. Phenibut, 4-amino-3-phenylbutanoic acid, is not named in Schedule 2 to the Misuse of...
- 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. Phenibut is not named...
- VietnamNot named in the danh mục. Phenibut is not named in Lists I to IV and no GABA-analogue catch-all appears in...
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Not individually verified
For these 158 countries the governing national drug law is known and cited, but we have not verified that Phenibut 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
- Albania
- Algeria
- American Samoa (US)
- Andorra
- Angola
- Anguilla (UK)
- Armenia
- Aruba (Netherlands)
- Azerbaijan
- Bangladesh
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Belize
- Benin
- Bermuda (UK)
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- British Virgin Islands (UK)
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Canada
- 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
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Falkland Islands (UK)
- Faroe Islands (Denmark)
- Fiji
- French Polynesia (France)
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Germany
- 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
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Liechtenstein
- Luxembourg
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Maldives
- Mali
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Micronesia
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Montserrat (UK)
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- New Caledonia (France)
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Korea
- North Macedonia
- Northern Mariana Islands (US)
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Portugal
- 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
- Serbia
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Sint Maarten (Netherlands)
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Korea
- South Sudan
- Sri Lanka
- 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
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
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