Is Pregabalin legal in Sweden?
Also known as: lyrica
- Legal status
- Controlled. Pregabalin is named in Förteckning V of the Swedish narkotikaförteckningar, which are Läkemedelsverkets föreskrifter (LVFS 2011:10) om förteckningar över narkotika, made under 3 § förordningen (1992:1554) om kontroll av narkotika. The version read for this cell is the consolidated text, which states on its own first page that it contains amendments through HSLF-FS 2026:26. The row reads «Pregabalin (3S)-3-(aminometyl)-5-metylhexansyra», and its international column reads no international listing. Förteckning V is the tier for certain substances declared narcotic nationally, for which a separate permit is not needed on each single occasion of import or export. Gabapentin was searched for in the same text and is not there, so the divergence between the two gabapentinoids that the live cell recorded is confirmed against the list itself.
- Consequences if caught
- Capital exposure: none. Sweden has no death penalty for any offence, so no drug offence here carries capital exposure. The live cell recorded a ringa narcotics offence at a fine or up to 6 months and an ordinary narcotics offence at up to 3 years.
- If prescribed or medical
- Prescribed as a Förteckning V narcotic medicine, dispensed on a special prescription form with the additional controls that classification entails.
- Documentation
- Carry a Schengen certificate and the original prescription and import only with proof of medical need. The live cell recorded the Förteckning V placement as effective 24 July 2018, in response to a growing black market. That date is carried forward and was not re-derived: the row prints no date.
- Läkemedelsverkets föreskrifter (LVFS 2011:10) om förteckningar över narkotika, konsoliderad version, as amended through HSLF-FS 2026:26, read on 21 September 2026
- 3 § förordningen (1992:1554) om kontroll av narkotika
- Quotations in guillemets are the row's printed tokens in column order. Line wraps inside a name are rejoined, and a hyphen that exists only because of the wrap is dropped. Any further name printed in the row is reported in prose rather than inside the quotation, because the two column layout interleaves it into the middle of the chemical name
- lakemedelsverket.se
- lakemedelsverket.se
- Narkotikastrafflag (1968:64), 1 §, 2 §, 3 § and 8 §
- Narkotikastrafflag (1968:64), read as at amendments through SFS 2024:797, which is the currency the Riksdag prints on the text, carried forward from the live cell and not re-derived
- riksdagen.se
- the row read at line 2344 of the pdftotext layout extraction of that consolidated text
- Every penalty band, fine, date, quantity, article and instrument attributed to the live cell in this row is carried forward from it and was not re-derived in this pass
- lakemedelsverket.se
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