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Nial Wheate, Professor and Director Academic Excellence, Macquarie University

Australia is running low on oral morphine. What does that mean for pain relief in palliative care?

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Australia currently finds itself in the unusual position of being both in an opioid epidemic and experiencing a shortage of these critical medicines.

The Therapeutic Goods Administration has placed eight oral morphine products on its shortage list. It doesn’t expect supply for these products to be resolved until around October or November this year.

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