Aims To report A ustralian population trends in subsidized prescribed opioid use, total costs
to the A ustralian government to subsidize these medicines and opioid‐related harms based …

Societal factors associated with ocular surface diseases were mapped using a framework to
characterize the relationship between the individual, their health and environment. The …

Objective: To document trends in:(i) prescribing of morphine and oxycodone;(ii) hospital
separations for overdose;(iii) presentations for treatment of problems associated with these …

Aims To examine trends in prescription opioid (PO) injection and to assess its association
with hepatitis C virus (HCV) seroconversion among injection drug users (IDUs). Design …

Summary The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs in 1961 aimed to eliminate the illicit
production and non-medical use of cannabis, cocaine, and opioids, an aim later extended to …

The Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS) was trialled in 1997 under the auspices of the
National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) to examine drug trends in three …

Abstract Objective Benzodiazepines (BZDs) are commonly used by chronic pain patients,
despite limited evidence of any long-term benefits and concerns regarding adverse events …

Aims. This paper (i) reviews the language used to describe and manage those patient
practices that fall outside standard medical models of opioid treatment (for pain and opioid …

Objective There is increasing concern about the appropriateness of prescribing
pharmaceutical opioids for chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP), given the risks of problematic …

The availability and diversion of prescription-type opioids increased dramatically in the first
decade of the twenty-first century. One possible consequence of increased prescription …