Doctor’s ‘grossly irresponsible prescribing’ link to deaths

A coroner has determined that five pharmacists who dispensed methadone and other drugs to four patients who died should not be criticised However the prescribing doctor’s conduct was “grossly outside safe and proper practice,” Tasmanian coroner Olivia McTaggart has found. An inquest into the deaths of four opioid-reliant patients – Nicholas Shane Brown, Toni Lee