Pursuant to section 24(7)(b) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975, I, Arran Culver, acting under delegated authority from the Minister of Health, specify the Lakes Opioid Treatment Service as a service that may provide treatment with controlled drugs for people who are dependent on controlled drugs, at the following places:
Te Ngako Community Mental Health Services
1144 Pukaki Street
Rotorua 3010; and
Ruia Te Hua Oranga
3 Gascoigne Street
Taupo 3330.
And, pursuant to section 24(7)(a) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975, acting under delegated authority from the Minister of Health, I specify
Dr Jeremy Bruce McMinn
as a medical practitioner, may:
(a) prescribe, administer or supply controlled drugs for the treatment of dependence to controlled drugs
as the lead clinician for Lakes Opioid Treatment Service;
(b) authorise in writing service/clinic medical practitioners as specified under subsection (2)(b) to:
(i) prescribe, administer or supply controlled drugs for the treatment of dependence;
(ii) to authorise in writing general practitioners receiving clients from Lakes Opioid Treatment Service as specified under subsection (2)(d); and
(c) authorise in writing general practitioners receiving clients from Lakes Opioid Treatment Service as specified under subsection (2)(d).
Conditions
1. Controlled drugs may only be prescribed, administered or supplied to people who are or have been clients of Lakes Opioid Treatment Service.
2. This approval expires on 31 October 2014.
Dated at Wellington this 1st day of August 2014.
DR ARRAN CULVER, Deputy Director of Mental Health.