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WHO invites manufacturers to submit medicines for prequalification to expand treatment for substance use disorders
WHO updates guidelines on opioid dependence treatment and overdose prevention
What Is ‘air Hunger’? And Can It Be Treated?
New rules for interstate prescribing commence this month
Americans Still See Opioid Overdose As Crisis
Interstate Prescribing Bill Passes Tasmanian Parliament
Expanding Access To Pill Testing This Summer
Police Lay Charges – Operation Werra In Darwin
NSW new public health warning: Opioid overdoses after using drugs thought to be cocaine
Why Vapes Laced With Nitazenes Are Causing Alarm
Generation X disproportionately impacted by methamphetamine-related deaths: new study
Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly – Daily update: 23 May 2025
Potent new opioid identified by ANU experts 
Public Health Warning: Nitazenes found in counterfeit oxycodone tablets in NSW
New electronic system to support pharmacy efficiency
Increased penalties for 23 illicit drugs
Dr Mark Ralfe
NSW latest public Health Warning: Severe overdoses after using drugs thought to be cocaine
NSW new public health warning: Severe opioid overdoses from nitazenes in fake oxycodone
NSW new heroin overdoses after using drugs thought to be cocaine
VIC medicinal cannabis driving law amendment overdue but welcome
Risky business – Consumers need to be aware of risks of ad-hoc telehealth
Health ministers and medical regulator must bear responsibility for rushed overseas doctor pathway issues: RACGP
New Drug Trends report highlights significant changes in substance use in Australia
NSW new public health warning: Heroin overdoses after using drugs thought to be cocaine
Mechanisms Of How Morphine Relieves Pain Mapped Out
Labor must fix life or death loophole that prevents frontline workers from saving lives
Pharmacy Connect 2024 Presents: Great Debate
Labor must expand safe injecting rooms to prevent more tragic deaths
Warning Of Potentially Deadly Synthetic Opioid
NEW PREMIER NEEDS A PLAN TO COMBAT LOOMING SYNTHETIC OPIOID CRISIS 
PREMIER MUST LISTEN TO EXPERTS ON SAFE INJECTING ROOMS AMIDST RISE IN SYNTHETIC OPIOIDS 
Hydromorphone trial a smokescreen to distract from Labor’s outrageous decision to axe second injecting room
NSW latest public health warning: Opiod overdose after using drugs people believed to be cocaine or methanamphetamine
Greens issue warning to new Premier regarding potentially lethal ‘Red Bull’ pills detected interstate
NSW new public health warning: tablets sold as MDMA (Ecstasy) found to contain a potent opioid
New ‘Green Book’ available for paediatric palliative care
Prosecution should be paused while medicinal cannabis driving trial is underway
Dark web drug trafficker arrested
Changes to opioid prescribing regulations coming into effect on 5 October
New amendments to legislation to ensure safe access to opioids
“I can now afford to get my kids school shoes”: Why opioid dependence medicine affordability changes are so important
Engagement on proposed changes to prescribing regulations to help ensure safe access to opioids
NSW latest public Drug Warning: Potent opioid (isotonitazene) found in drugs in yellow powder form
New digital tool to crack down on ‘doctor shopping’ for drugs
NSW latest warning issued after potent opioid found in heroin
‘Everything changed’: reuniting families fractured by opioids
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