Spike in opioid scripts ‘driving up deaths’
Australia has no co-ordinated national approach to overdose prevention despite 'enthusiastic' prescribing, addiction medicine specialists say.
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Tag: Addictions
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.
Hard-to-treat smokers need our time and a lot more NRT
This is a response to an article by Professor Stephen Leeder: An MBS item to counsel smokers? It’s just a load of smoke For decades, GPs…
Cocaine cut with opioids causes deaths in NSW
Health authorities warn that people using stimulants recreationally are at high risk if the drugs are laced with heroin or ‘designer’ fentanyl.…
An MBS item to counsel smokers? It’s just a load of smoke
Tobacco smoking remains prevalent in Australia – current estimates suggest that we have about two million adult smokers. This number has fallen in recent decades…
Are PBS rules hampering smoking cessation?
A draft report suggests giving prescribers more flexibility.
An Indigenous health success story? This is one of them
Led by local community leaders, it co-stars Tony Abbott and a multinational petrochemical corporate.
Call for GPs to prescribe naloxone with ‘all opioids’
The agent should be 'normalised' and move beyond the realm of illicit drugs, experts say
How too many nangs resulted in spinal myelopathy: case
The young man's recreational nitrous oxide use interfered with his vitamin B12 metabolism, UK doctors report.
How doctors are dropping opioid addiction prescribing
Only 1% of NSW doctors are prescribing the therapies, and that number is falling, study finds.
