The present invention aims to provide a method for producing, by a simple method, drug-containing wax matrix granules, particularly drug-containing wax matrix granules having an average particle diameter of 1 mm or lower, while avoiding liquid blockage due to the recrystallization of a molten drug during the period from a melting step to a spray step. Drug-containing wax matrix granules having at least one wax and at least one drug are produced by the following steps (i) and (ii): (i) supplying the at least one drug and the at least one wax to an extruder in which the temperature of a barrel and the temperature of a die are adjusted to be higher than the melting point of the at least one wax and (ii) while melting and kneading the at least one drug and the at least one wax in the extruder to give a molten kneaded drug and wax, spraying the molten kneaded drug and wax into an atmosphere having a temperature lower than the melting point of the wax from a spray nozzle directly mounted onto a die provided at a top end of the barrel of the extruder, thereby forming the mixture into granules.
