Crimes involving prescription medication explode as opioids flood market

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Crimes involving prescription medications have soared in Victoria and NSW, fuelling concerns about a rising black market for opioid painkillers and other pharmaceutical drugs

Victoria had the most significant increase in pharmaceutical-related crimes, with offences involving prescription drugs up by more than 400 per cent in 10 years, from 826 offences in 2010 to 4234 in September 2019.

In NSW, “pharmaceuticals” - which can include drugs obtained through a doctor’s prescription as well as over-the-counter medicine - accounted for 15,818 offences over the same period. The Australian Crime Intelligence Commission has thrown its weight behind calls for the Morrison Government to introduce a national prescription monitoring system, which would track how high-risk “Schedule 8” medicines such as opioids and benzodiazepines are dispensed by GPs and pharmacists.

 

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