Codeine: what a difference a year makes… or does it?

As the low-dose codeine upschedule loomed, predictions were made of an increase in crime, an increase in scripts for stronger opioids, and patients left in pain… but did it happen? And is it really all over for “prescription except when”? Megan Haggan investigates the upschedule, a year on It’s been a year since low-dose codeine