Medical Access in Algeria

Currently classified as a strictly controlled psychotropic/hallucinogenic substance under Algeria’s drug law framework with no authorised medical therapy or reimbursed clinical program outside of formally approved research. The national narcotics/psychotropes statute (Loi n°04‑18) implements Algeria’s obligations under the UN Single Convention and 1971 Psychotropics Convention and treats hallucinogens as controlled substances, subject to criminal penalties for possession, use and trafficking unless a specific ministerial medical or scientific authorization is issued. [1]UNODC: Loi n°04-18

Currently classified as a strictly controlled substance under national drug scheduling laws, with no authorized medical use or reimbursed access outside of approved clinical research or a specific, exceptional ministerial authorization. (Algeria’s Loi n°04‑18 broadly controls psychotropic substances including synthetic empathogens/hallucinogens.) [1]UNODC: Loi n°04-18

There is no publicly available evidence that intranasal esketamine (Spravato®) has been registered, authorised for national therapeutic use, or included in a national reimbursement scheme in Algeria. Algeria’s medicines procurement and hospital lists explicitly include injectable ketamine among standard anaesthetic agents used in hospitals and procurement procedures, but I found no entry or national approval record for esketamine as a specifically authorised marketed antidepressant product in Algeria’s public sources or in Algeria’s drug‑control legislative summaries. As a practical consequence: esketamine is not a reimbursed or standard treatment option in Algerian practice; access would require either an authorised clinical trial import permit or a special ministerial authorisation for scientific use. Evidence of ketamine on Algerian procurement/essential lists: ketamine appears on Algerian clinical/essential‑medicines procurement lists and training curricula for anesthesiology (showing routine anaesthetic use). [1]Algerian procurement/essential medicines listing – example slide listing Ketamine [2]ONLCDT – Loi n°04‑18.

Ketamine (racemic injectable) is an accepted and widely used anaesthetic/analgesic agent in Algerian hospitals and appears on national procurement/essential medicines lists and in local anaesthesia training materials, indicating routine medical/operative use under Ministry of Health oversight. These uses are governed by Algeria’s medicines regulation and hospital procurement systems and fit within the Loi n°04‑18 carve‑out permitting medical and scientific uses of controlled substances under authorisation. [1]Algerian procurement/essential medicines listing – Ketamine [2]ONLCDT – Loi n°04‑18

Clinical/psychiatric use of ketamine (e.g., off‑label infusions for depression) is not established as a reimbursed or standard care pathway in Algeria: there is no publicly available national guideline or reimbursement programme for ketamine as a psychiatric intervention. In practice, ketamine is available for licensed medical purposes (principally anaesthesia and acute pain), administered within hospitals and surgical centres; any psychiatric/off‑label programmes would be provided at the discretion of treating institutions/clinicians and would not be part of a dedicated, publicly reimbursed psychedelic therapy pathway. For regulatory status: medical use is permitted under ministerial supervision while non‑medical possession/trafficking remains criminalised by Loi n°04‑18. [2]ONLCDT – Loi n°04‑18 [1]Example procurement listing showing Ketamine

Currently classified as a strictly controlled psychotropic substance under Algeria’s drug law framework, with no authorised medical use or reimbursed access outside approved scientific/clinical research. The national statute adopts the UN psychotropics scheduling approach and treats naturally occurring and synthetic psychodysleptics as controlled. [1]UNODC: Loi n°04-18

Currently classified as a strictly controlled psychotropic substance under national drug scheduling laws, with no authorized medical use outside approved clinical research. Algeria’s law groups hallucinogens/psychodysleptics under controlled substances unless a specific medical or scientific authorisation is issued. [1]UNODC: Loi n°04-18

Currently classified as a strictly controlled substance under Algeria’s psychotropic/narcotics law, with no authorised medical programme or reimbursement for addiction treatment; access would be limited to specially authorised clinical research if permitted by the Ministry of Health and judicial authorities. [1]UNODC: Loi n°04-18

Brew preparations containing DMT and other psychotropic constituents fall under Algeria’s control of psychotropic substances; ayahuasca is therefore effectively illegal for unapproved use and has no authorised medical/reimbursed pathway. Any importation/administration would require a specific scientific or ministerial exemption. [1]UNODC: Loi n°04-18

Classified among controlled hallucinogens under Algeria’s psychotropes/narcotics law; no authorised medical or reimbursed uses exist and the compound is subject to criminal penalties for possession, trafficking or distribution except under narrow ministerial research/medical authorisations. [1]UNODC: Loi n°04-18

Substituted phenethylamines and novel synthetic psychedelics are controlled as psychotropic substances under the national drug law; 2C‑series compounds have no authorised medical use or reimbursement and are criminalised outside approved scientific research. [1]UNODC: Loi n°04-18