Oxycodone: The Factors Behind Australians' Increasing Use of 'Hillbilly Heroin'
Oxycodone: The factors behind Australians' increasing use of 'hillbilly heroin'
Over the past 10 years, the number of prescriptions for pharmaceutical opioids in Australia has soared, and prescriptions for one drug in particular, oxycodone, have shown a significant increase. Both are trends that have the nation's medical community …
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Australian pharmacies prepare to stock a new version of OxyContin that is …
Chemists have been warned their shops could be robbed by drug addicts desperate to get the last supplies of the old OxyContin tablets — also known as hillbilly heroin — so they can crush it for injection or sniffing. It has been estimated almost half …
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