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
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Terms used 96
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Application of Part 97
Division 2 — General requirements
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Requirements for prescription or supply of medicine that is Schedule 4 reportable poison or Schedule 8 poison 97
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Administration, prescription or supply of medicine that is Schedule 8 poison to drug dependent person or oversupplied person 98
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CEO may authorise prescribing of specified medicine that is Schedule 8 poison to specified patient 98
Division 4 — Authorising prescription or supply of stimulant
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Terms used 99
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Prescribing or supplying stimulant 99
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Approval of stimulant clinic 101
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Designating stimulant prescriber 101
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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
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Terms used 103
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Designation of opioid pharmacotherapy prescriber, specialist prescriber and detoxification prescriber 103
Subdivision 2 — Detoxification treatment using opioid pharmacotherapy
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Detoxification treatment using opioid pharmacotherapy 104
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Current detoxification prescriber for patient 104
Subdivision 3 — Opioid pharmacotherapy for treatment of drug dependency
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Appointing opioid pharmacotherapy prescriber for drug dependent person 105
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Appointing co‑prescriber for drug dependent person 105
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Prescribing opioid pharmacotherapy for treatment of drug dependency 107
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Prescribing opioid pharmacotherapy for treatment of drug dependent person in hospital or custody 108
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Prescribing opioid pharmacotherapy for treatment of drug dependent person in certain circumstances 109