Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Aug 2022
Australians forced to pay for methadone and other drugs to get off addictive PBS medication
7 August 2022 - Aussie taxpayers are subsidising addictive pain medication but not the treatments that help get patients off the drugs, as doctors are refusing to prescribe them.
People who’ve become addicted to painkillers after an accident or surgery are paying up to $200 a month in dispensing fees to access methadone and other treatments because of a perverse quirk in the nation’s medicines policy.
