REGIONAL and rural centres have often been neglected around the issue of drug addiction, but this week Victoria's Bairnsdale Advantage Pharmacy Managing Pharmacist Iain Cartney (pictured) took the opportunity to redress the attention deficit.
An ABC News story around illegal prescription drug use in rural Australia profiled Cartney highlighting the powerful role of a committed pharmacy with a methadone program.
Some 800 people die each year from prescription drug overdose with the highest toll being in rural Australia, the article said.
The program's focus was on the usage of Fentanyl, slotted as 50 times more powerful than heroin, and the potential ways the community can come together to abate the issue.
Cartney identified the methadone program as critical to success for many people - go to abc.net.au for the full story.
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