To ease the cost-of-living pressures, the Federal Government has announced it will halve the number of scripts and allow patients to collect up to 60 days worth of some prescription drugs, which is double the current 30-day script maximum. Local Wollongong Pharmacist Rony Azar believes that the 60-day script change has the potential to further aggravate medicine shortages and although he has been told they won’t, he is sceptical. “From past experiences during covid and the way of the recent stock holdings, there is a big chance for medicine shortages to worsen, if people start taking these scripts up,” he…
Author: Wade McDonald
There’s been a call for action in preventing spiking and sexual violence with a massive increase in spiking incidents across NSW recorded between 2018 and 2022. Over the four-year period there was a staggering 86 per cent rise in food and drink spiking. The ‘What Were You Wearing Campaign’ founder, Sarah Williams, said there should be more measures put in place for bar staff in preventing drink spiking at NSW nightclubs. “We want to amend the. We want to have a whole section for drink spiking and then a whole section on sexual violence awareness,” Ms Williams said. By supplying…