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  Opioid-harm on the rise

  Friday | Sep 20 2019

  PRESCRIPTION medications including codeine, oxycodone and tramadol, are fuelling a surge in hospitalisations linked to opioid-related harm, new research reveals.

  
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  Qld to get RTPM in 2020

  Thursday | Sep 19 2019

  REAL-TIME prescription monitoring (RTPM) will be introduced in Queensland in the second half of next year, the State’s Minister for Health and Ambulance Services, Steven Miles, says.

  
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  Cost barrier to cannabis

  Thursday | Sep 19 2019

  QUEENSLAND One Nation Senator, Malcolm Roberts, stirred the medicinal cannabis debate in parliament this week claiming the Federal Minister for Health, Greg Hunt, is playing a “pharmaceutical game” with the medicine.