Notice Type
Departmental
Notice Title

Approval of Waikato District Health Board Community Alcohol and Drug Service and Clinician to Provide Substitution Treatment Under Section 24 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975

Pursuant to section 24(7)(b) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975, I, John Crawshaw, acting under delegated authority from the Minister of Health, specify Waikato District
Health Board Community Alcohol and Drug Service ("Waikato CADS") as a service that may provide treatment with controlled drugs for people who are dependent on controlled drugs, at the following places:
242 Bank Street
Te Awamutu 3800; and
Community Alcohol & Drug Service
193 London Street
Hamilton 3204; and
Thames Hospital
610 Mackay Street
Thames 3500;
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 Andrew Vincent Darby
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 Waikato CADS;
(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 Waikato CADS as specified under subsection (2)(d); and
(c) authorise in writing general practitioners receiving clients from Waikato CADS 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 Waikato CADS.
2. This approval expires on 31 December 2017.
Dated at Wellington this 7th day of March 2014.
DR JOHN CRAWSHAW, Director of Mental Health.