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As of February 28th 2023, pholcodine has FINALLY been banned in Australia by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA).
Press release here: TGA - Pholcodine
It's very sad that it took 14 years after Florvaag & Johansson's landmark 2009 paper describing the connection between pholcodine and NMBD anaphylaxis, for this problem to be addressed.
How many patients were exposed to avoidable harm?