Non-medical use of pharmaceuticals falls

The proportion of people using codeine for non-medical purposes has halved since 2016 and this is likely due to its upscheduling, according to the latest National Drug Strategy Household Survey Between 2016 and 2019, non-medical use of pharmaceuticals in the last 12 months fell from 4.8% (1 million) to 4.2% (900,000). “This trend was largely