PBAC wants ‘critical’ opioid shortage fixed, warning doctors’ care options are being compromised
Dr Dilip Kapur says it is 'bizarre' that companies have fewer responsibilities to patients than he does as a doctor.
Pain and palliative care doctors want Federal Government action to stop the “egregious” behaviour of pharmaceutical companies pulling drugs from the market with little warning.
Doctors say they have had virtually no access to immediate-release oral morphine products since February 2024, a year after Mundipharma announced it would stop distributing all strengths of its oral liquid morphine hydrochloride trihydrate (Ordine).
