It’s easy to blame COVID. But Australia has suffered medicine shortages for years. The pandemic has only highlighted the problem. Here’s what we could do to better avoid shortages in the first place.
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Restricting drug access can make the overdose crisis worse, not better. A bioethicist explains what that means for an ethical drug policy.
COVID-19 has resulted in higher than normal levels of medicine shortages. Here’s what to do if your local pharmacy is out of stock.
Toilet paper shortages were bad enough. A shortage of drugs during the COVID-19 pandemic would be worse. A provision in the Canadian government’s relief package aims to prevent that from happening.
Similar laws in the US have actually led to increasing the risk of fatal drug overdoses.
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Associate Professor of the School of Pharmacy, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Director of the Master of Bioethics degree program at the Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University
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Joel Lexchin is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor Emeritus of Health Policy and Management, York University, Canada
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Pharmacist and PhD Candidate, University of Sydney
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Lecturer and Researcher, Supply Chains and Operations, Victoria University
