Australia is following the same ominous course as the U.S., with skyrocketing rates of opioid prescriptions and related deaths.
Carmall Casey stands for a portrait in her yard in Black River, Tasmania, Australia, Wednesday, July 24, 2019. From her home in rural northwest Tasmania, not far from the poppy fields that produce half the world's supply of the raw ingredients in pharmaceutical opiates, Casey seethes over a system she says pushed her and so many others into addiction. It is a system that has made opioids the cheap and easy alternative for so many Australians.
“It’s depressing at times to see how we, as practitioners, literally messed up our communities,” said Dr. Bastian Seidel, who warned that Australia’s opioid problem was a “national emergency” two years ago when he was president of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. “It’s our signature on the scripts.”“Unfortunately, in Australia, we’ve followed the bad example of the U.S.,” he says. “And now we have the same problem.
In the U.S., drug companies such as OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma are facing more than 2,000 lawsuits accusing them of overstating the benefits of opioids and downplaying their addictiveness. Mundipharma said the classes cover non-opioid treatment options and “strongly emphasize” that opioids are only appropriate after a comprehensive assessment. In a statement, it also said it strictly adheres to the code of conduct of the pharmaceutical industry’s regulator, Medicines Australia, and has always been transparent about the risks associated with opioids.
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