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Australia now faces its own opioid crisis, despite warnings
By Associated Press
September 5, 2019 | 3:06pm | Updated
Carmall Casey finds an old pack of tapentadol while going through her box of medicine in her kitchen in Black River, Tasmania, Australia.
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BLACK RIVER, Australia — The coroner’s sense of futility was clear, as he investigated the death of yet another Australian killed by prescription opioids.
Coroners nationwide have long urged officials to address Australia’s ballooning opioid addiction and to create a tracking system to stop people from collecting multiple prescriptions from multiple doctors. Yet even as thousands died, the coroners’ pleas were met largely with silence.
“For what it is worth, I add my voice to the chorus pleading for urgency,” Western Australia coroner Barry King wrote in his report, delivered in May.
Half a world away, Australia has failed to heed the lessons of the United States and is now facing skyrocketing rates of opioid prescriptions and related deaths. Drug companies facing scrutiny for their aggressive marketing of opioids in America have turned their focus abroad, working around marketing regulations to push the painkillers in other countries. And as with the US, Australia’s government has also been slow to respond to years of warnings from worried health experts.
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READ MORE: https://nypost.com/2019/09/05/australia-now-faces-its-own-opioid-crisis-despite-warnings/
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