Oxycodone safer for kids than codeine, say drug experts
'The idea that codeine is a weak opioid is a fairy story': Adjunct Associate Professor Geraldine Moses
GPs are being urged to use the ‘stronger’ opioid oxycodone for children, rather than ‘weaker’ codeine, because it is safer.
The advice comes on the back of the first Australian study to quantify the prescribing of opioids to children.
