Mount Nelson GP Clive Stack returns to court after 2022 arrest over various drug charges

A GP charged with making, supplying and illegally prescribing drugs out of his Mount Nelson clinic has returned to court, almost two years after he was first arrested. What will happen next.

Clive Rohan Stack outside the Hobart Magistrates Court in June 2022. Picture: Kenji Sato

A Hobart GP charged with making, supplying and illegally prescribing drugs out of his Mount Nelson clinic has returned to court – almost two years after he was first arrested.

Clive Rohan Stack was first arrested in June 2022 after a Tasmania Police investigation and raid at his clinic, the Mt Nelson Medical Centre.

He was charged with 71 offences, including 17 counts of obtaining a prescription by means of false conduct, two counts of unlawfully making a narcotic substance, 10 counts of possessing a restricted substance, and six counts of unlawfully supplying a narcotic substance.

However, it is understood his raft of charges may soon be amended.

Dr Stack, who is on bail, appeared in the Supreme Court of Tasmania on Tuesday for a brief administrative hearing following several previous appearances in the Hobart Magistrates Court.

Justice Helen Wood heard that the Crown had now “settled on appropriate charges”, and that Dr Stack’s defence lawyer Fabiano Cangelosi was waiting for the Crown to inform him of these charges.

Mt Nelson Medical Centre. Picture: Humanitas website

Justice Wood noted Dr Stack had first appeared in the Supreme Court in mid-2023, and the “matters is of some age now”.

“I trust the matter will be expedited,” she said.

Dr Stack will return to court on June 11.

The Mt Nelson Medical Centre is run by Dr Stack through a charity that he founded, Humanitas.

The website lists a series of Humanitas’ projects including the development of a “novel non-addictive pain killer” drug.

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