SafeScript Clinical Advice Line You are here:HomeOur servicesList of servicesAlcohol & Drug ServiceResources for Clinicians 1800 434 155 SCAL is a free 24/7 telephone service that provides general advice to health professionals who require assistance with the safe prescribing and dispensing of S4 and S8 for pain, mental health and addiction management. Calls are triaged by addiction and pain clinical nurse consultants within hours, with access to Psychiatrist, Pain and Addiction Specialists for complex cases. The SafeScript NSW Clinical Advice Line will provide advice on: interpreting pop-up notifications and alerts in SafeScript NSW supporting patients with complex needs with polypharmacy and/or monitored prescription medicines use managing requests from patients to prescribe monitored medicines prescribing opioids and other monitored medicines safely and appropriately supporting patients requiring medicines for anxiety, sedation, distress and substance use disorders treating pain, including alternative strategies and approaches to pain management referring patients to appropriate secondary or tertiary services for the management of their pain, anxiety, distress and dependency prescribing methadone or buprenorphine through the NSW Opioid Treatment Program (OTP). DASAS is funded by NSW Health and managed by St Vincent’s Hospital Alcohol and Drug Service in Sydney. SafeScript in other states.