The Commissioner indicated that SAPOL had maintained a permanent presence on the APY Lands since the appointment of the first community constables in 1986 but that this presence had varied over time.134 128 Evidence K Wanganeen, 1 December 2004, Q660, Q663. 129 Evidence K Wanganeen, 1 December 2004, Q664-5. 130 Evidence K Wanganeen, 1 December 2004, Q660. 131 Evidence K Wanganeen, 1 December 2004, Q662. 132 Evidence K Wanganeen, 1 December 2004, Q714. 133 Evidence K Wanganeen, 1 December 2004, Q715. 134 Evidence M Hyde, 1 December 2004, Q735. 61 Commissioner Hyde noted that SAPOL had observed “over the years … a growing trend to substance abuse, particularly alcohol and petrol sniffing, but more recently there has been an emerging list of drug uses, particularly cannabis.”

MR ROWETT: Yes. 127 THE PRESIDING MEMBER: They do not cause great problems in the amount of perishables, both nutritional and medicinal, that would be lost if the blackout was for 2½ hours or more.

Ordered - That the adjourned debate on the question - That the Controlled Substances (Cannabis) Amendment Bill be now read a second time - be now resumed. ????????????????

MR ROWETT: Yes. 127 THE PRESIDING MEMBER: They do not cause great problems in the amount of perishables, both nutritional and medicinal, that would be lost if the blackout was for 2½ hours or more.

of Cannabis) Amendment Bill.   ?

The Drug and Alcohol Services Council reported in 2002 that, with the exception of cocaine, the prevalence of lifetime and recent use (within the last 12 months) of all illicit drugs increased between 1995 and 1998.378 372 Warmington, oral evidence, Hansard, p45 373 Carers' Association of South Australia Inc. op cit. p8 374 Neville, A. (2001). op cit. p45 375 ibid. p45 376 Williams, oral evidence, Hansard, p286. 377 Anglicare, written submission, p11 378 Drug and Alcohol Services Council, Illicit Drug Use in South Australia 2002, A Statistical Overview, 2nd edition, South Australia, May 2002. p1 The Social Development Committee of the South Australian Parliament 122 Cannabis remains the most commonly used illicit drug in South Australia.

MR ROWETT: Yes. 127 THE PRESIDING MEMBER: They do not cause great problems in the amount of perishables, both nutritional and medicinal, that would be lost if the blackout was for 2½ hours or more.

ABN 91 028 693 268 24 May 2023 Hon Connie Bonaros Chair Select Committee on Health Services in South Australia GPO Box 572 Adelaide SA 5001 E: schealthservicesinSA@parliament.sa.gov.au Dear Ms Bonaros Re: Access to Urinary Tract Infection Treatment in South Australia On behalf of the Australian Medical Association in South Australia (AMAA(SA)), thank you for the opportunity to provide information to the Select Committee on Health Services in South Australia about what our members perceive as risks to patient safety posed by any expansion of pharmacy prescribing that may include medicinal treatments for UTIs.

We rejected an application for medicinal cannabis for a person with a mental health condition, because we could find no research, nor could the treating doctor find any research, that demonstrated that medicinal cannabis would actually be helpful in addressing the mental health condition.

Based on article 11 of the Swiss Federal Act on Narcotics and Psychotropic Sub- stances and article 26 of the Swiss Federal Act on Medicinal Products and Medical Devices a Swiss medical doctor may prescribe narcotics under certain circumstances.