Get Au Application For Authority To Prescribe A Schedule 8 Drug – Pain Management 2016

The prescribing of Schedule 8 psychostimulant medication (e.g. , ®, LA®, ®, dexamphetamine, , ®) requires authorisation from the NSW Ministry of Health (Pharmaceutical Regulatory Unit) and is generally restricted to specialists, such as paediatricians and ...

Schedule 8 drugs are 'poisons to which the restrictions recommended for drugs of dependence by the 1980 Australian Royal Commission of Inquiry into Drugs should apply'. These include , hydromorphine, pethidine, , codeine phosphate and .

This prior approval to prescribe grants the doctor the Authority to prescribe the desired medicine and have it funded under the PBS. Authority to prescribe an Authority medicine is granted for specific indications and/or for certain patient circumstances.

Licensed and Unlicensed Medical Professionals Only licensed medical professionals can issue a prescription under California law. However, there are small exceptions for board-registered graduates who are in approved programs, even if they are still unlicensed in California.

There are various types of Authority Scripts and reasons for authority prescriptions, including: A quantity or repeat is prescribed which is larger than the usual PBS quantity. The medication requires additional monitoring, tests or expertise at the of prescribing. The medication is a high cost drug.

Pharmaceutical benefits can only be prescribed by doctors, dentists, optometrists, midwives and nurse practitioners who are approved to prescribe PBS medicines under the National Health Act 1953. There are separate arrangements for PBS prescriptions in certain public hospitals.

The authority prescription number is eight digits in length. The first seven digits are the base number, incremented by one for each subsequent prescription, with the eighth digit being a 'check digit'. The check digit is generated from the base number and is used to check the validity of the whole number.

Schedule 8 (S8) Medicines Schedule 8 (S8) substances are labelled 'Controlled drug'. They are medicines that can only be supplied by a pharmacist on prescription and are subject to tight restrictions because of their potential to produce addiction. They are often referred to as 'drugs of addiction'.

Can a nurse practitioner, midwife practitioner, dentist or other authorised practitioner prescribe a compounded Schedule 8 medicine? No. Only a medical practitioner may obtain authority to prescribe a compounded S8 medicine. Other practitioners cannot prescribe them.