Western Australian Consolidated Regulations Western Australian Consolidated Regulations (1) A medical
practitioner or dentist may administer a drug of addiction for the treatment
of a person who is a drug addict.
(2) A medical
practitioner or dentist may prescribe or supply a drug of addiction for the
treatment of a person who is a drug addict if the medical practitioner or
dentist —
(a) has
been authorised by the CEO under this subregulation to do so for that drug
addict; and
(b) does
so in accordance with the authorisation.
(3)
Subregulations (1) and (2) do not authorise a medical practitioner or
dentist to prescribe or supply a pharmacotherapy for the treatment of the drug
addiction of a person who is a drug addict.
[Regulation 51BA inserted in Gazette
21 Apr 2009 p. 1361.]