‘We have overprescribed oxycodone, codeine’ says AMA chief

The health sector needs a “fundamental re-education” around the use of analgesics in chronic pain, says AMA president Dr Michael Gannon And doctors have been over-prescribing opioids over recent years, he admits. Following the release of the AIHW’s report on the misuse of pharmaceutical drugs, Dr Gannon spoke to 2GB’s Mark Levy, who asked him