Article 24 of the Saudi Narcotics Law Implementing Regulations

First: private clinics. A physician is licensed to hold narcotic or psychotropic medicines and prescribe and dispense them from his clinic under the following controls:

• The clinic's license issued by the Ministry of Health is valid.
• There is an annual need approved by the Saudi Food and Drug Authority.
• The medicines are in the custody of the physician who owns the clinic and under his responsibility, or in the custody of a Saudi pharmacist or Saudi pharmacy technician working at the clinic.
• Holding is limited to the emergency medicines the Minister of Health specifies.
• Prescribing and dispensing are subject to the controls of Articles 20, 21, 22 and 23 of the Regulations, that is, the prescription conditions, its retention, the special register for each medicine and the Minister of Health's controls for prescribing and dispensing.

Second: emergency cases.

• The head of the ambulance center is responsible for these medicines if there is no Saudi pharmacist or Saudi pharmacy technician at the center, and the head of the ambulance team is responsible for their custody in the ambulance vehicle.
• The Minister of Health approves the permitted medicines, their quantities and forms.
• Paramedics give them to the injured person after the physician's approval and his specifying the medicine and quantity.
• The empty container is returned to the body that dispensed it, and the custody register records the patient's and physician's names, the time and date of contacting him, the name of the medicine, its quantity, the time of dispensing and the name and signature of the person who dispensed it.
• If the prescribed quantity is less than the capacity of one syringe, the paramedic and the team head destroy the remainder and sign to that effect in the ambulance report.

Anyone who runs a clinic or ambulance body and needs to review their obligations can consult a lawyer specialized in commercial cases.