Hospitals and Healthcare

Public health workers say the Victorian government can't ignore the evidence supporting a supervised injecting room in Melbourne's CBD, in submissions to a state review into the controversial proposal.

A third of those with alcohol and drug problems who have treatment get better. Can we really afford to stick to stubborn ideas about addiction?

The Premier and her cabinet need to know that drugs don't discriminate and those who have a problem are not 'dopes'.

Suspected overdoses jumped 42 percent in May, data obtained by Post shows. Fueling the surge are isolation, economic devastation and disruptions to the drug trade.

A decision by doctors to increase a patient’s methadone dose based on a phone consult "contributed substantially” to the patient's fatal overdose the following day, a coroner has found.

Jessica Higgins had a long history of severe back pain linked to her work as a supervisor on a bus service for disabled children.

Having become dependent on opioids, in May 2017 the 33-year-old was admitted to a rehabilitation centre for a ketamine infusion, with the goal of rotating her onto methadone. Pain specialists should've seen the patient before upping her dose, he concluded.

A new paper suggests that death certificates dramatically undercounted the number of people dying from opioid overdoses.

Different chemically than it was a decade ago, the drug is creating a wave of severe mental illness and worsening America’s homelessness problem.

Addiction remains shrouded in stigma, while the system through which we provide addiction treatment in Australia is fragmented and failing. There's no better time to address these issues.

The number of Australians dying from drug overdoses has risen steadily since 2001, with about three quarters of those in 2018 unintentional, and experts say stigma and discrimination is to blame as prescription medicine dependence is not treated appropriately.

In Islam, drugs and alcohol are forbidden, so for Muslims struggling with addiction issues, it can be hard to admit the problem, let alone seek help. But in Western Sydney, a rehab clinic is catering to Muslims in need.

People who use illicit drugs are at increased risk during the coronavirus pandemic. But minimising that risk will improve their well-being and help avoid additional pressure on the health system.

Sick Queenslanders are facing longer waits for surgery and getting hooked on painkillers in the process, despite record funding for public hospitals. Today, a new campaign is launching to force decisive action to reduce the surgery queues.