Is Xylazine legal in Sweden?
- Legal status
- Xylazine (xylazin) is authorised in Sweden as a prescription veterinary medicine (receptbelagt läkemedel för djur, ATC QN05CM92) registered with Läkemedelsverket; it is regulated under medicines law and does not appear on the narkotika classification lists.
- Consequences if caught
- Unauthorised handling of xylazine is a medicines-law matter rather than a narkotikastrafflag offence, since it is not classified as narkotika.
- If prescribed or medical
- Dispensed only on a veterinary prescription for sedation/analgesia in animals; xylazine has no approved human indication.
- Documentation
- Rompun vet. 20 mg/ml injektionsvätska (xylazin) and related products are listed in the Läkemedelsverket medicines register.
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