Notice Type
Departmental
Notice Title

Approval of a Specified Place and Lead Clinician to Provide Opioid Substitution Treatment Under Section 24A of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975

Publication Date
19 Dec 2025

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Misuse of Drugs Act Approvals to prescribe, administer or supply controlled drugs Approvals to prescribe, administer or supply controlled drugs revoked Health

Notice Number

2025-go7426
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Acting under delegated authority from the Minister of Health, I, Dr John Crawshaw:

  1. Revoke the approval of the Capital and Coast District Health Board Addiction Services and medical practitioner issued pursuant to section 24A(7)(a), (b) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975 on 20 December 2023 (as published in the New Zealand Gazette, 20 December 2023, Notice No. 2023-go5962); and
  2. Specify the Capital Coast Opioid Treatment Service as a service that may provide treatment with controlled drugs for people who are dependent on controlled drugs, pursuant to section 24A(7)(b) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975, at the following places:

Wellington Community Mental Health and Addictions Service
Level 1, 113 Adelaide Road
Wellington;

Lower Hutt Community Mental Health and Addictions Service
Ground Floor, Public Trust House
40–42 Queens Drive
Lower Hutt 5010;

Porirua Community Mental Health and Addictions Service
Level 8, BNZ Towers
14 Hartham Place North
Porirua 5022;

Upper Hutt Community Mental Health and Addictions Service
Level 1, CBD Towers
84–90 Main Road
Upper Hutt 5018;

Kapiti Community Mental Health Treatment
Kapiti Health Centre
Warrimoo Street
Paraparaumu 5032.

  1. Pursuant to section 24A(7)(a) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975, specify that Dr Sam McBride, as a medical practitioner, may:
    1. prescribe, administer or supply controlled drugs for the treatment of dependence as the lead clinician for the Capital Coast Opioid Treatment Service;
    2. authorise in writing service/clinic medical practitioners as specified under section 24A(2)(b) to:
      1. prescribe, administer or supply controlled drugs for the treatment of dependence;
      2. authorise in writing general practitioners receiving clients from the Capital Coast Opioid Treatment Service as specified under section 24A(2)(b) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975; and
    3. authorise in writing general practitioners receiving clients from the Capital Coast Opioid Treatment Service as specified under section 24A(2)(b) 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 the Capital Coast Opioid Treatment Service.
  2. This approval takes effect on 22 December 2025 and expires on 15 December 2028.

Dated at Wellington this 18th day of December 2025.

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