Barbiturate, alcohol warning…and an arsenic retrospective

Barbiturate poisonings on the rise, a proposal to require scripts for the “so-called tranquilising drugs” and a crackdown on arsenic sales – how pharmacy was changing in the 50s The August 1956 edition of the Australasian Journal of Pharmacy looked at a number of drugs of concern, starting with the barbiturates class. We took a