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How GPs can help patients reduce drinking in line with new guidelines

How GPs can help patients reduce drinking in line with new guidelines

Healthy Australians should drink no more than 10 standard drinks a week, according to new NHMRC guidelines.


What the TGA’s recent opioid changes mean for GPs

What the TGA’s recent opioid changes mean for GPs

Adjunct Professor John Skerritt of the Therapeutic Goods Administration outlines why the regulator is making changes to opioid indications and pack sizes.


Seeing the slow change

Seeing the slow change

Dr Hester Wilson writes about the habits that can kill us – and how changes can come almost without realising.


Wastewater reveals record high drug consumption

Wastewater reveals record high drug consumption

New Australian data shows a spike in overall drug use at the height of the pandemic, but opioid use is down.


Is there hidden trauma behind strict drug laws?

Is there hidden trauma behind strict drug laws?

Dr Hester Wilson raises concerns over the ‘drugs are bad’ mentality, when there is a proven harm-minimisation approach.


Top experts call for major new coalition on non-medical pandemic research

Top experts call for major new coalition on non-medical pandemic research

The best successes against the ever-growing coronavirus pandemic have so far not come from drugs or vaccines, but from behavioural and social techniques.


Melbourne to get second safe-injecting room

Melbourne to get second safe-injecting room

The news follows a review of the city’s first facility, though questions remain as to the choice of a site near the busy Queen Victoria Market.


Opioid pack sizes halved, new annual checks for patients

Opioid pack sizes halved, new annual checks for patients

Doctors will have more oversight over potent but addictive opioid-based medications.


People with a dependency a hidden cost of lockdown

People with a dependency a hidden cost of lockdown

Some of Australia’s most vulnerable have been at real risk, Dr Hester Wilson writes.


Remdesivir and COVID-19: What GPs need to know

Remdesivir and COVID-19: What GPs need to know

It has become the first therapy for COVID-19 to receive FDA approval for emergency use – but evidence of its effectiveness remains mixed.


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