Prescription of opioid analgesics and related harms in Australia

Objective: To document trends in: (i) prescribing of morphine and oxycodone; (ii) hospital separations for overdose; (iii) presentations for treatment of problems associated with these drugs; and (iv) oxycodone‐related mortality data in Australia.

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