How Victoria’s award-winning prescription monitoring system SafeScript is fighting overdose — and won over the AMA
Each year, more Victorians die from prescription medications than road accidents or illicit drugs. And yet until recently, there was no reliable way for doctors and pharmacists to know whether their patient was already seeing other practitioners to bump up their dosage. It’s been described as a game of Russian roulette for doctors — they don’t know where the potential bullets are for any particular patient. But that’s changing.
