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Pharmacists, GPs urged to co‐prescribe naloxone – Australian Journal of Pharmacy
Opioid‐related mortality in people taking pharmaceutical opioids for chronic pain is common but can be prevented, say experts While pharmaceutical opioid prescribing…
While pharmaceutical opioid prescribing and unintentional overdose deaths continue to rise, health practitioner attitudes towards risk may be contributing to low naloxone prescribing rates, argue experts.
The rate of opioid-related deaths almost doubled between 2007 and 2017, alongside a doubling in numbers of PBS opioid prescriptions.
Most of these deaths involved prescription opioids, write Associate Professor Suzanne Nielsen from the Monash Addiction Research Centre and PhD candidate and GP Dr…
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