Health Advocate Mental Health and Chronic Pain August 2018

WIN News ACT Interview Coverage of Chronic Pain: National Pain Week 23 July 2018

3CR Brainwaves Radio Interview Dr Malcolm Hogg: National Pain Week 25 July 2018

Member profile: From war zones to the White House

If codeine is passe and opioids are ineffective for long-term pain, what next?

House of Wellness interview In search of pain relief 7 July 2018

Understand pain to prevent Aussie opioid crisis

Restricting access to opioids could drive pain sufferers to buy harder drugs on the black market, experts warn

Pain and opioids on the rise in Australia

Funding for national pain action plan

Hunt announces pain plan

Greg Hunt backs national pain action plan

The end of over-the-counter codeine in Australia

Pain Test

Pain Pressure

Fighting Australia's growing back pain problem

Encouraging a pain rethink

Finding the best pain strategy for you and your patients

How children manage chronic pain

Meet the women fighting the painful and debilitating disease, endometriosis

Codeine bans forcing painkiller addicts onto dark web, authorities say, as sufferers criticise changes

Codeine ban sends sales of Nurofen, Panadol skyrocketing

Pharmacists copping codeine price fury

How are codeine users coping since its withdrawal from pharmacy shelves?

Beyond codeine - more risks identified with other painkillers

Codeine user says price hike will turn pain sufferers to illegal drugs

Is the codeine policy change good for pain management?

Bendigo fibromyalgia patient, clinical pharmacy expert weigh in on codeine prescription law

Nurofen Plus, Panadeine, no longer sold without prescription

Panadeine discontinued from Australian market as codeine ban kicks in

A future of better pain management without codeine awaits Australia

Codeine prescriptons: Why you will pay more for pain relief

Over-the-counter codeine’s a thing of the past. What’s next in preventing opioid harm?

Withdrawal warning as pharmacy codeine ban takes effect

The opioid crisis and why Australia is cracking down on codeine

Over-the-counter codeine change in Australia comes with alternatives and warnings

Sky news interview

Codeine ban

Codeine removal from counters fails to address high rural opioid prescription rates, doctors say

Pain management and prescribing opioids

Codeine webinar

The distress of untreated pain

The codeine conversation continues

Worried customers 'stockpiling' codeine products ahead of new rule

Painkiller panic

Letters: Pain sufferers need support, not codeine

Codeine ban sparks consumer complaints and fears of stockpiling

Wagga pharmacies will no longer sell codeine-based painkiller over the counter

Central Victorian pharmacies to no longer sell codeine-based painkiller over the counter

Painkiller prescription

Pharmacy pain

'A tsunami of pain': Changes to codeine availability shed light on hidden epidemic of addiction

Over-the-counter codeine-based pain pills to become prescription only

Pain of codeine addiction a real problem, writes Leah Dwyer

Painkiller deadline: are you ready?

Power through knowledge: patient education and self-management keys to successfully managing chronic pain

Where are we at with real-time monitoring?

Codeine rescheduling an opportunity to address the pain crisis

Opioids misuse starts after hospital discharge

Colour the World Orange Day

Doctors pen open letter on codeine battle

Doctors pen open letter on codeine battle

Doctors pen open letter on codeine battle

Chemists accused of putting profits ahead of patient safety in codeine prescription row

Chemists accused of putting profits ahead of patient safety in codeine prescription row

Our opioid diet is not working, it’s proper pain management that we need

Codeine

#NotWise

Pharmacists lobby for codeine sale exceptions

Australia's prescription drug addiction

Opioids still misused by many, more education needed: peak body

Learn from my mistakes and understand what mixing meds can do

Opioid addiction: Doctor-shopping accounts for increased prescriptions and risk

Pain, a Chronic Issue

Call for reform of aged care pain practices

Seniors in pain being inappropriately restrained

One in five living with chronic pain

Here’s What 7 Pain Professionals Recommend for a Better Recovery

National strategy improving access and outcomes for people with pain

Work can be a pain and it needs a cure

Pain: What You Need to Know and 4 Things to Start Doing Now for a Better Recovery

Private health insurance: what’s in it for people with chronic conditions?

Surgeries causing chronic pain

Quarter of patients develop chronic pain after undergoing surgery, advocacy group says

Figures show a quarter of minor surgeries can lead to lasting pain

Anti-inflammatory drugs ineffective for back pain, study says

Back pain medications do more harm than good, study finds

Chronic pain a risk after surgery — and just bad luck

Codeine crackdown: concerns change fails to consider pain treatment and addiction

The decision to upschedule codeine medications highlights the need for more effective pain management services