Your health
Surgery and anaesthesia, sport and anti-doping rules, and what a prescription means in health settings beyond your prescriber's rooms.
Surgery and anaesthesia is the one question with no statute behind it and a clear answer anyway: your anaesthetist needs to know what you take, and the page here sets out why, from the clinical literature rather than the Acts. Sport and anti-doping is still to come.
1 of 1 pages here are checked against the legislation they describe; the rest each say so on their face.
Every page in this section
- Do I have to tell my anaesthetist about my prescription?There is no law on this
There is no law requiring it, and a clear clinical reason to do it. Published anaesthesia research has repeatedly found that regular cannabis users need measurably more anaesthetic
Status: not yet checked against primary sources — general information, not legal advice