Misuse of Drugs Act 1975 Criteria for Assessing Risk of Harm

Public health risks, therapeutic value, potential for causing death, ability to create dependence, international classification, any other relevant matters.

Reserved for the most serious drugs requiring severe restrictions, with the assumption of severe harm if possessed.

Cocaine, heroin, LSD, phencyclidine (PCP), thalidomide, amphetamine substances (MDA, MMDA), methamphetamine.

<p>Life imprisonment for manufacture, importation, and supply offences.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To impose severe restrictions due to the serious harm associated with these substances.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To understand how other countries classify and regulate drugs for informed decision-making.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The risk of harm the drug poses to individuals or to society by its misuse.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Drugs posing a very high risk of harm are Class A, high risk are Class B, and moderate risk are Class C.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Likelihood or evidence of drug abuse and specific effects of the drug.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Detailed criteria for assessing the risk of harm of a drug.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To restrict access to and minimize the misuse of controlled drugs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Prescribing of controlled drugs is more tightly controlled.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To restrict the illicit use of controlled drugs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Maximum period of supply is 1 month (30 days) with a Triplicate Prescription Form.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Not more than 7 days after the date of prescription.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>3 months (90 days).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Medical Practitioners, Nurse Practitioners, Midwives, Dentists, Pharmacists, Veterinarians.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Different maximum penalties depending on the classification of the substance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>6 months (180 days)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>6 months (180 days)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>3 months (90 days)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>9 months</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>90 days (3 months)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>3 months (90 days)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Full approval under section 20 or provisional approval under section 23</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To have the full name and physical address of the animal’s owner</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>No</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They can prescribe a limited range of items</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The veterinary practitioner's judgment of the animal's condition</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Contact the Veterinarian Council of NZ</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Approval under section 20 of the Medicines Act 1981 ensures that medicines and products used in New Zealand are safe and effective.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Provisional approval under section 23 allows for certain medicines to be approved for use in New Zealand on a temporary basis.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Veterinarians are authorized to prescribe medicines for animals under the Medicines Act 1981.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Optometrists have limited prescribing rights under the Medicines Act 1981, typically for certain eye-related medications.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Dietitians do not have prescribing rights under the Medicines Act 1981.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Medicines Act 1981 sets limits on the duration and quantity of prescription medicines that can be supplied to patients.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Privacy principles under the Privacy Act 2020</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Rules for handling health information</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Agencies providing health services and some non-health sector agencies</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Regulation and protection of the public from harm</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Protection of the public from harm</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Establishing a regulatory framework</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To protect the health and safety of the public</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Medicines Act 1981</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>If it meets safety and effectiveness standards</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Approval, classification, manufacture, sale, distribution, advertising, prescribing, and dispensing</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Allows for consistent procedures and terminology</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Covid-19 BioNTech, Pfizer vaccine</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An Act of Parliament</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To all agencies that collect personal information about living individuals.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Supplementary Order Paper (SOP)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Privacy Act 2020</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Designated Prescribers</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Government Bills, Members' Bills, local Bills, and private Bills</p> Signup and view all the answers