Notice Type
Departmental
Notice Title

Approval of Otago Community Alcohol and Drug Service and Medical Practitioner to Provide Substitution Treatment Under Section 24 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975

Acting under delegated authority from the Minister of Health, I, John Crawshaw:

  1. revoke the approval of the Otago Community Alcohol and Drug Service and medical practitioner issued pursuant to section 24(7)(a), (b) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975 on 28 February 2017 (as published in the New Zealand Gazette, Issue No. 25, Notice No. 2017-go997); and
  2. specify the Otago Community Alcohol and Drug Service as a service that may provide treatment with controlled drugs for people who are dependent on controlled drugs, pursuant to section 24(7)(b) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975, at the following places:
    1. Clutha Mental Health
      24 Clyde Street
      Balclutha 9230

    2. Dunstan Hospital
      Hospital Street
      Clyde 9391

    3. Waitaki Community Mental Health
      2 Trent Street
      Oamaru 9400

    4. Wakari Hospital
      369 Taieri Road
      Halfway Bush
      Dunedin 9010; and

  3. pursuant to section 24(7)(a) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975, specify Dr Karl Hopf Schimdt, as a medical practitioner, who may:
    1. prescribe, administer and supply controlled drugs for the treatment of dependence, as the lead clinician for Otago Community Alcohol and Drug Service;
    2. authorise in writing service/clinic medical practitioners as specified under section 24(2)(b) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975 to:
      1. prescribe, administer or supply controlled drugs for the treatment of dependence:
      2. authorise in writing general practitioners receiving clients from Otago Community Alcohol and Drug Service as specified under section 24(2)(d) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975; and
    3. authorise in writing general practitioners receiving clients from Otago Community Alcohol and Drug Service as specified under section 24(2)(d) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975.

Conditions

  1. Controlled drugs may only be prescribed, administered or supplied to people who are or have been clients of Otago Community Alcohol and Drug Service.
  2. This approval expires on 31 March 2018.

Dated at Wellington this 14th day of December 2017.

Dr JOHN CRAWSHAW, Director of Mental Health, Director of Addiction Services, Ministry of Health.