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Recent trends in heroin and pharmaceutical opioid-related harms in Victoria, Australia up to 2018.

Tina LamLisa KuhnJane HaymanMelissa MiddletonJames WilsonDebbie ScottDaniel I LubmanKaren SmithSuzanne Nielsen
Published in: Addiction (Abingdon, England) (2019)
In Victoria, Australia, there appears to have been a trend starting around mid-2014 of increasing heroin-related harm, and a flattening of the increase or a decrease of harms relating to pharmaceutical opioids. These changes may, in part, reflect reformulation of oxycodone to reduce the extent to which it can be injected or snorted.
Keyphrases
  • chronic pain
  • pain management