A GENERAL practitioner has been found guilty of professional misconduct relating to inappropriate prescription of drugs of addiction without authority by the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal, following a Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC) case arising from information it received from two pharmacists.
A number of patients were referenced in relation to their being prescribed schedule 8 drugs Fentanyl, morphine, methadone and Oxycodone, schedule 4D drugs temazepam, diazepam and alprazolam, Schedule 4 Tramadol and schedule 4 codeine phosphate + paracetamol and others, with inappropriate quantities also involved in some cases.
Costs were ordered in favour of the HCCC and the practitioner's license was cancelled with a non-reapplication period of two years.
See details at caselaw.nsw.gov.au.
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