Is Xylazine legal in Australia?
- Legal status
- Xylazine is a Schedule 4 (Prescription Only Medicine / Prescription Animal Remedy) substance in the Poisons Standard (SUSMP) administered by the TGA; it is a veterinary sedative regulated as a prescription animal remedy and is not a Schedule 8 controlled drug or a prohibited (Schedule 9) substance.
- Consequences if caught
- Unauthorised possession or supply of xylazine is dealt with as a Schedule 4 poisons offence under state/territory drugs-and-poisons law, not as a narcotics-trafficking offence, since it is not scheduled as a human controlled drug.
- If prescribed or medical
- Available only on the order of a registered veterinary practitioner who has established a therapeutic need for an animal under their care; no human therapeutic use of xylazine is registered.
- Documentation
- Xylazine injectable products (e.g. Ilium Xylazil, Randlab Xylazine) are Schedule 4 prescription animal remedies supplied through veterinarians.
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