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Synthetic opioids: the coming wave
Fentanyl has yet to fully enter Australia, but experts believe it is a matter of when, not if, it arrives on our shores. Is there a role for pharmacists in …
Coronation, television and heroin dominate discourse
May 1953; Heroin slowly banned as AJP shows deference to newly crowned Queen Elizabeth II – with cautionary notes from the US on how television will change society No doubt …
Doxylamine implicated in overdose
More time needed to judge effect of Melbourne’s medically supervised injecting room following a man’s overdose late last year: Coroner A 35-year old man died in Melbourne in November 2018 …
An ‘unusual’ case
A man has died by overdose in a GP surgery after taking drugs alongside the GP’s daughter – who also worked at the practice A 43-year-old man from Adelaide has …
Pharmacists crucial to overdose prevention
A coroner has highlighted that some areas in Melbourne have higher numbers of drug overdose and therefore higher need of prevention strategies In mid 2017, two men in their 30s …
Helping me, helping you
A methadone program brought this recovering heroin addict and pharmacist together Fabian, from Victoria, was 16 years old when he first started using heroin. And it was only when a …