AS OF 29 Sep community pharmacists are able to destroy S8 medicines.
NSW Health announced that the Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Regulation 2008 will now allow a pharmacist practising at a community pharmacy to destroy a drug of addiction (S8 medicines) in the pharmacy, in the presence of an independent witness.
A pharmacist must record the event in their pharmacy's drug register, as well as the witness's name, registration number, and signature.
All expired S8 medicines should be quarantined from usable stock and transferred to a separate page of the register.
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