Queensland Opioid Treatment Program
The Queensland Opioid Treatment Program (QOTP) began in 1977 and provides treatment for opioid dependence, including prescription opioids. The aim of treatment is to reduce the health, social and economic harms to individuals and the community. The Department of Health has clinical and regulatory oversight of the program. Opioid treatment is available from public clinics and private prescribers in Queensland.
Prescribers and pharmacies
Medical practitioners or nurse practitioners can be prescribers. Prescribers are required to complete training and obtain approval from Queensland Health before being able to prescribe medicines under the QOTP to persons with opioid substance use disorders.
Community pharmacies are another key partner in the delivery of opioid treatment. More than one third of Queensland pharmacies now participate in the Queensland Opioid Treatment Program.
If you would like to become a treatment provider or would like your pharmacy to become involved in delivering this important public health program, please contact us via email (QOTP@health.qld.gov.au) or phone 13S8INFO (13 78 46).
COVID-19 information for QOTP treatment providers
Long acting injections of buprenorphine - Update
- Fact Sheet – Long Acting Injections of buprenorphine for opioid dependence treatment – March 2020 (PDF 226 kB).
- The Queensland Opioid Treatment Program (QOTP) Prescriber Course
- Long-Acting Injection Buprenorphine in the Treatment of Opioid Dependence Queensland Clinical Guidelines: 2019 (PDF 1158 kB)
QOTP information
- The Queensland Opioid Treatment Program (QOTP) Prescriber Course
- Fact Sheet – QOTP– July 2019 (PDF 129 kB)
- Fact Sheet: Sale of naloxone as a Schedule 3 (Pharmacist Only) medicine – February 2016 (PDF 191 kB)
QOTP resources
- Queensland Medication-Assisted Treatment of Opioid Dependence: Clinical Guidelines 2018.
- Long-Acting Injection Buprenorphine in the Treatment of Opioid Dependence Queensland Clinical Guidelines: 2019 (PDF 1158 kB)
- Application for patient class approval for a QOTP prescriber (PDF 183 kB)
- Drug therapy protocol – Pharmacist - Queensland Opioid Treatment Program - April 2019 (PDF 236 kB).
Contacts
Queensland Opioid Treatment Program
Telephone: (13S8INFO) 13 7846
Email: QOTP@health.qld.gov.au
