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Prescriptions Down 25%, Overdoses Cut in Half: What Stopped a Gabapentinoid Surge?

(MedPage Today) -- High-profile media coverage of the harms associated with the gabapentinoid pregabalin (Lyrica) and tighter safeguards coincided with fewer prescriptions and overdoses in Australia, a retrospective study showed. Following a media...

Prescriptions Down 25%, Overdoses Cut in Half: What Stopped a Gabapentinoid Surge?

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Wyatt sought pandemic inquiry before election defeat

Russ Wyatt pushed for a federal inquiry into the COVID-19 pandemic before he was dumped from his council seat in the civic election last month. Before he lost the Transcona […]

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