Protocol for Methadone Maintenance Treatment in New Zealand

Protocol for Methadone Maintenance Treatment in New Zealand
Draft for Comment

Date of publication: July 2001

Note: Submissions have now closed. Submissions were due by 31 August 2001. View current consultation documents.

Please note the final document based on this draft is now available as Opioid Substitution Treatment New Zealand Practice Guidelines

2 July 2001

Submissions have closed

Public submissions were invited on this draft of the revised Protocol for Methadone Maintenance Treatment in New Zealand.

This Draft Protocol was designed to replace the existing National Protocol for Methadone Treatment in New Zealand. Once finalised it was the guiding document for the treatment of people with opioid dependence in New Zealand, which has been published as Opioid Substitution Treatment New Zealand Practice Guidelines

It is expected that services and prescribers will have their own local protocols which deal more specifically with some areas, local protocols will be required to align with and support the new Protocol.

The draft was widely distributed for comment by all interested parties.

Submissions closed Friday 31 August 2001.

David Chaplow (Dr)
Director of Mental Health

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