Prescription drug diversion is becoming a lucrative business in regional and rural Australian communities and is escalating due to methamphetamine withdrawal

Bringing prostate cancer education to regional and rural Australian communities

Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (PCFA) launched its Rural Education Roadshow program in 2013. Funded through the Commonwealth Government, and modelled on the Western Australia Cancer & Palliative Care Network framework, the program brought a structured prostate cancer education program to regional, rural and remote communities across Australia. The Roadshow aimed to: • improve local kno...

Preventing Prescription Drug Diversion.

THE FACTS In 2013, more than 43,900 Americans died from drug overdose. Prescription drugs contributed to most of those deaths. Opioid pain relievers like oxycodone, hydrocodone, and methadone were involved in more than 16,000 of those deaths (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2015). Approximately 46 Americans die every day from drug overdoses (Jones, Mack, & Paulozzi, 2013). Opi...

Opioid therapy and prescription drug diversion.

Prescription drug abuse in Canada and the diversion of prescription drugs into the illicit drug market.

Prescription drug abuse has received considerable attention in media reports in recent years. The purpose of this article is to describe the Canadian situation and context with regards to prescription drug abuse and the diversion of psychotropic prescription drugs into the illicit drug market, with a focus on the need for more data and interventions. Canada ranks within the top 10% of countries...

Security and E-Business: Is There a Prescription?

Over the past few years it has become increasingly common for organizations, government agencies and businesses, i.e., enterprises, to position some or all of their information assets in close proximity to the Internet. Do enterprise architectures and designs apply to secure e-business computing? Issues of classification and management of data assets beyond the enterprise boundary, plus legal l...