Inside Australia, addiction medicine specialists are certified by means of the Chapter of Addiction Medicine, which is element on the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. They may alternatively be a member in the Section of Addiction Psychiatry, Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists.
The word "prescription", from "pre-" ("before") and "script" ("writing, written"), refers to the fact that the prescription is an order that must be written down before a compound drug may be prepared. Individuals inside the sector will often call prescriptions simply "scripts".