An approval from the NSW Ministry of Health is required to prescribe or supply some medicines.

• Medicines that need approval
• Prescribe psychostimulants
• Prescribe S8 opioid for pain management
• Prescribe alprazolam or flunitrazepam
• Prescribe esketamine or ketamine for treatment resistant depression          

Use SafeScript NSW to apply for approval to prescribe Schedule 8:

• medicines under the NSW Opioid Treatment Program (OTP)
• psychostimulant medicines
• pain management medicines
• benzodiazepines
• esketamine and ketamine (for treatment resistant depression).

For all PDF application forms click below.

The NSW Opioid Treatment Program (OTP) seeks to reduce the social, economic and health harms associated with opioid use.

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Use SafeScript NSW to:

• access real-time information about a patient's prescription and dispensing history for certain high-risk medicines
• submit applications for approval to prescribe and/or supply certain Schedule 8 medicines.

The following must be reported to the Secretary of NSW Health.

• Loss or theft of S8 or S4D medicines
• Lost, stolen or forged prescriptions