Drug and alcohol review
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Drug and alcohol review · Sep 2013
Estimating the proportion of prescription opioids that is consumed by people who inject drugs in Australia.
To estimate the contribution that people who inject drugs (PWID) make to population-level use of prescription opioids in Australia. ⋯ PWID use prescription opioids at high levels and can account for a significant proportion of consumption. Increased oxycodone prescribing in Australia has not been driven by PWID. Opioid substitution therapy and other effective treatments need to be more available and attractive to PWID.