Article 199 Federal Criminal Code
BOOK TWO · TITLE SEVEN. Crimes Against Health · CHAPTER I. Of production, possession, trafficking, proselytism and other acts in matters of narcotics
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
The Public Prosecutor's Office (Ministerio Público) or the judicial authority hearing the case, as soon as it learns that a person related to any proceeding for the crimes provided in articles 195 or 195 bis is drug-dependent, must immediately inform and, where applicable, involve the competent health authorities, for the purposes of the corresponding treatment.
In every detention center, rehabilitation services shall be provided to the drug-dependent person.
For the granting of the conditional sentence or of the benefit of preparative release, when they proceed, the one relative to drug dependence shall not be considered as a record of bad conduct, but it shall be required in every case that the sentenced person submits to the corresponding medical treatment for their rehabilitation, under surveillance of the executing authority.