Is Scopolamine (Devil's Breath) legal in Switzerland?
- Legal status
- Scopolamine (hyoscine) is an authorised medicine, not a controlled drug: it is absent from the Betäubungsmittelverzeichnis of the Narcotics Act. The Scopoderm TTS motion-sickness patch is a Swissmedic-approved prescription medicine, and Buscopan (Butylscopolamin) is sold as a pharmacy medicine.
- Consequences if caught
- Scopolamine carries no narcotics-law penalty; supply of the prescription patch outside the pharmacy channel breaches therapeutic-products law, not the Narcotics Act.
- If prescribed or medical
- Scopoderm TTS is prescribed for motion sickness; Buscopan (Butylscopolamin) is a pharmacy antispasmodic; injectable scopolamine is used in premedication and palliative care.
- Documentation
- Scopoderm TTS is Swissmedic-approved with Fachinformation in the AIPS product-information database; carried lawfully with a prescription.
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