Doctor-shopper’s death sparks renewed warning over pregabalin
Three different GPs had prescribed the drug with repeats to the 37-year-old man, heard the Coroners Court of Victoria
A Victorian coroner has added her voice to warnings about pregabalin misuse, after finding a man in his 30s died from combined drug toxicity after receiving scripts from three different GPs.
The known doctor-shopper was prescribed 560 tablets of 300mg pregabalin by three GPs in less than three months, equivalent to 5.3 tablets per day, according to coroner’s findings published this week.
