AMA urges real-time script monitoring

April 6, 2016

Tony Bartone, the Vic president of the Australian Medical Association, has renewed calls for a real-time prescription monitoring system after a Coroner’s Court report showed prescription drugs contributed to 330 of the state’s 420 overdose deaths last year. According to the report benzodiazepines such as diazepam were the drugs most frequently contributing to overdose; whilst opiate-based medications such as codeine and methadone were involved in 183 deaths last year. The report found heroin was the most deadliest illicit drug last year, killing 168 Victorians in 2015. The AMA has long urged the introduction of a real-time monitoring system, having first advocated for the technology in a Drug and Alcohol Strategy submission as early as 2011 to stop “doctor shopping,” misuse and overdoses from prescription drugs.

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AMA urges real-time script monitoring

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