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Australia to reclassify Xanax as Schedule 8


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It seems this is more an issue of how soon the TGA will do this, not if. Xanax will need to be double-locked in pharmacies and hospitals, and there will be a central database to track prescriptions. 

 

I couldn't find a copy of the recommendations online but there's a good article here:

 

http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2013/s3764456.htm

 

And commentary supporting the change here:

http://theconversation.com/why-the-tga-should-make-it-harder-for-people-to-get-xanax-12897

 

 

 

 

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oh ffs, it's a decent treatment for anxiety. Angela Rintoul has missed the point that people need the short term benefits regularly. "Hur dur, I'm going to be a doc Tor."

 

In terms of all alcohol and drug related attendances, they were second only to alcohol

 

did anyone edit this article? engage brain before publishing morons.

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Interesting, If it goes through I might push my pdoc to give me 2mg bars that I can break rather than repeated scripts for the lower dosage. Theres some amount of irony in that.

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