Drug Users Recruit Pensioners for Pain Medication

Published March 17, 2014

Drug users recruit pensioners for pain medication
A Newcastle Herald investigation can reveal that elderly people are being recruited by drug users to acquire lucrative scripts for a pharmaceutical variation of heroin. Desperate pensioners told the Herald they became involved in the practice known as …
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'Fossil pharming' sees elderly go doctor shopping
The black market demand for the opioid analgesic oxycodone is so strong that pensioners are being encouraged to get it under false pretences from their GP, it has been reported. In a process dubbed 'fossil pharming”, elderly Australians are being …
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