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Medicines and Poisons Regulations 2016
Part 11Prescription and supply of medicines that are Schedule 4 reportable poisons or Schedule 8 poisons
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Part 11 — Prescription and supply of medicines that are Schedule 4 reportable poisons or Schedule 8 poisons
114. Terms used 96
115. Application of Part 97
Division 2 — General requirements
116. Requirements for prescription or supply of medicine that is Schedule 4 reportable poison or Schedule 8 poison 97
117. Administration, prescription or supply of medicine that is Schedule 8 poison to drug dependent person or oversupplied person 98
118. CEO may authorise prescribing of specified medicine that is Schedule 8 poison to specified patient 98
Division 4 — Authorising prescription or supply of stimulant
125. Terms used 99
126. Prescribing or supplying stimulant 99
127. Approval of stimulant clinic 101
128. Designating stimulant prescriber 101
130. Stimulant prescriber to notify CEO if patient’s stimulant treatment stops 102
Division 5 — Authorising prescription or supply of opioid pharmacotherapy for treatment of drug dependency
Subdivision 1 — Preliminary
133. Terms used 103
134. Designation of opioid pharmacotherapy prescriber, specialist prescriber and detoxification prescriber 103
Subdivision 2 — Detoxification treatment using opioid pharmacotherapy
135. Detoxification treatment using opioid pharmacotherapy 104
136. Current detoxification prescriber for patient 104
Subdivision 3 — Opioid pharmacotherapy for treatment of drug dependency
137. Appointing opioid pharmacotherapy prescriber for drug dependent person 105
138. Appointing co‑prescriber for drug dependent person 105
139. Prescribing opioid pharmacotherapy for treatment of drug dependency 107
140. Prescribing opioid pharmacotherapy for treatment of drug dependent person in hospital or custody 108
141. Prescribing opioid pharmacotherapy for treatment of drug dependent person in certain circumstances 109