GPs in the dark without real-time monitoring

GPs are prescribing opioids “in the dark,” says a prominent GP and medical advisor, MJA Insight reports, without a real-time prescription drug monitoring protocol. Dr Walid Jammal, Senior Medical Advisor, Advocacy, at Avant Mutual Group, told MJA Insight that GPs have been calling for a national real-time prescription drug monitoring program for some time, with