Is Pregabalin legal in Myanmar?

Legal status

Not listed in Myanmar's narcotic or psychotropic notifications. Pregabalin was searched for across Notification 24/2025 and Notification 25/2025 and no entry was established for it. Because section 2 confers status only by notification, a substance the Ministry has not declared is not a narcotic drug or a psychotropic substance under this Law at all.

Consequences if caught

No offence under this Law is made out for Pregabalin on this record. Sections 16(c), 19 and 20 each take a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance as their object, so where no notification names the substance, none of the three attaches to it and the 5 to 10 year, 10 year to unlimited and 15 year to unlimited or death bands are all out of reach. What this finding is, and what it is not. No entry for Pregabalin was established under this Act, and that is not a statement that Pregabalin is lawful under Myanmar's other laws. Medicines, imports, customs, product and excise law were not audited here and any of them may reach it. Capital and life exposure. None is assigned to Pregabalin under this Law, and the reason is structural rather than a matter of degree. Section 20, the only article that reaches death, takes a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance as its object, and no notification entry places Pregabalin in either category. Section 19 and its 10 years to an unlimited period are out of reach for the same reason, and section 26 never engages at all, because its deemed sale quantities presuppose a substance the notifications have already caught. The definition in section 2 is closed. Status is conferred entirely by Ministry of Health notification, and the Act carries no analogue clause, no structural derivative limb and no generic definition anywhere in its 31 sections, so a substance absent from the lists is not swept in by chemical resemblance to one that is present. What this cell states is the statute as written. It is not a description of enforcement. Policing of these provisions since February 2021 is not what the text describes, and substantial areas of the country sit outside central government control, so the law on the page and the treatment a person actually meets are two different questions.

If prescribed or medical

Section 28 of the Law, which is the exemption for medical and research use, is not engaged for Pregabalin, because an exemption only bites on something the Law caught in the first place. No notification entry places Pregabalin among the narcotic drugs or the psychotropic substances, so the question the Law asks does not arise for it. That is a narcotics-law answer only. If Pregabalin reaches Myanmar as a medicine it is governed by the medicines and import regimes instead, and those were not audited for this cell.

Documentation

This Law asks for no document for Pregabalin, because it never catches it, so there is nothing to carry or show under the narcotics regime. That is not the whole travel question. Medicines, import, customs and product rules sit outside this Law, they can ask for paperwork of their own, and they were not audited for this cell. Where the rule comes from. The instrument is the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law, State Law and Order Restoration Council Law 1/93, as amended by Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law 6/2018. The substance lists are not in the Law itself. Section 2(a) makes a narcotic drug one the Ministry of Health has declared by notification, section 2(b) does the same for a psychotropic substance, and section 30(b), as substituted in 2018, is the power: the Central Body and the Ministries concerned may issue notifications, orders, directives, and procedures. The live lists are Notification 24/2025 for narcotic drugs and Notification 25/2025 for psychotropic substances. Checked 17 September 2026. Placement for Pregabalin: none established in either notification. Pregabalin was not located in the current narcotic or psychotropic lists; any prescription controls under other Myanmar law are not silently treated as a designation under this Act. One limit on this cell is worth stating plainly. A further amending law, NDSC Law 17/2025, is reported to exist, and its text could not be obtained from any of the three routes tried. Nothing here is cited to it, and every section number and every quantity above is quoted from the 1993 Law as amended in 2018.

Drug laws and enforcement change and vary within a country. This is not legal advice. Always confirm with Myanmar’s embassy or official drug authority before traveling; penalties can be severe, including imprisonment.