Oxycodone use fell 45% between 2019 and 2020, with no significant rebound since, Australian wastewater analysis suggests. Researchers have attributed the decline to policies including…
Knowing local GPs who prescribe medicinal cannabis is key to protecting patients from the “perfunctory” prescribers, says NSW Health’s chief addiction medicine specialist. Sydney GP…
Should regularly using illicit drugs away from work automatically disqualify you from practising medicine? Some argue that doctors using recreational drugs hurts the medical profession’s…
Health department officials in Victoria say they are routinely reporting between 10 and 30 doctors a month to AHPRA. Not all of them end up…
Nitrous oxide abuse is causing severe symptoms from psychosis and hallucinations to spinal cord degeneration, ED doctors report in a case series of 22 Australian…
The Queensland Government’s pharmacy prescribing experiment is finally a reality. Pharmacists in the pilot confirmed on Wednesday morning that the State Government had given them…
Patients with undiagnosed ADHD are turning to cocaine and other illicit substances to self-manage their symptoms, a psychiatrist has warned. Dr Ashlea White, who is…
Associate Professor John Furler has been on the front line, treating patients who use illicit drugs, for almost 30 years while also forging his academic…
Editor’s note: The headline has been updated. It previously stated that Professor Renee Bittoun was a medical doctor, but this was incorrect. She has a…
Dostoevsky had to write The Gambler in two months. He had no choice. He had accepted 3000 roubles from a publisher named Stellovsky to keep…
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