What is a Schedule 7 Chemical?
Emma Johnson
Updated on February 28, 2026
Schedule 7 poisons are substances with a high potential for causing harm at low exposures which require special precautions during manufacture, handling or use. These poisons should be available only to specialised or authorised users who have the skills necessary to handle them safely.
What is a Schedule 8 poison?
Schedule 8 drugs are ‘poisons to which the restrictions recommended for drugs of dependence by the 1980 Australian Royal Commission of Inquiry into Drugs should apply’. These include morphine, hydromorphine, pethidine, methadone, codeine phosphate and oxycodone.
What is the antidote of poison?
Poison & Antidote Chart
| Poison | Antidote |
|---|---|
| Calcium channel blockers | Atropine, Insulin, Calcium, Lipid emulsion |
| Cyanide | Hydroxocobalamin (Cyanokit), Sodium thiosulfate |
| Digoxin | Atropine, Digoxin immune Fab |
| Ethylene glycol | Fomepizole, Pyridoxine, Sodium bicarbonate |
What are Schedule 8 drugs Australia?
Schedule 8 poisons (labelled ‘Controlled Drug’) are medicines with strict legislative controls, including opioid analgesics – for example, pethidine, fentanyl, morphine (MS-Contin®, Kapanol®), oxycodone (OxyContin®, Endone®), methadone (Physeptone®) and buprenorphine.
What is a Schedule 5 medication?
Schedule V drugs are generally used for antidiarrheal, antitussive, and analgesic purposes. Some examples of Schedule V drugs are: cough preparations with less than 200 milligrams of codeine or per 100 milliliters (Robitussin AC), Lomotil, Motofen, Lyrica, Parepectolin.
What is a SUSMP Schedule 7 Poison?
Listed regulated poisons that are SUSMP Schedule 7 poisons (referred to as listed regulated Schedule 7 poisons) are: ACRYLONITRILE. ARSENIC. AZO DYES that are derivatives by diazotisation of any of the following substances:
What are some examples of antidotes for poison?
Some examples of antidotes include: Acetylcysteine for acetaminophen poisoning. Activated charcoal for most poisons. Atropine for organophosphates and carbamates. Digoxin immune fab for digoxin toxicity. Dimercaprol for arsenic, gold, or inorganic mercury poisoning.
What to do when you think you have been poisoned?
When a person started to feel signs and symptoms of poisoning, or he thinks he is poisoned, what he going to do is to find the right antidote and asks for medical assistance to assist him to undo the effect of poison or to lessen the detrimental action of the poison in his body. Poison can be called simply as toxin or toxic substance.
What is a listed regulated poison?
Under the Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Regulations 2017, a “listed regulated poison” means a SUSMP Schedule 7 poison included in Part 2 of Chapter 1 of the Poisons Code in the list of substances that are not for general sale by retail.
