Netted, drugged, locked away: the damning face of child mental health in SA Joel Magarey, InDaily, 23 September 2019 South Australian children experiencing mental crises are being tied down under nets, locked up in seclusion at extreme rates and forcibly injected with...
Xanax still being overprescribed despite policy changes Rachel Clun, The Sydney Morning Herald, September 19, 2019 Patients are still being prescribed hundreds of Xanax tablets a year despite a cut in government subsidies. Reports of anxiety drug poisonings have also...
A warning for 1.5 million Australians on benzodiazepines Tue 13 Aug 2019, 6:51am According to the Australian Bureau of statistics, the single biggest drug type implicated in drug-related deaths are actually benzodiazepines, or benzos,drugs which help with anxiety and...
What to expect as Victoria’s mental health royal commission wraps up By James Bennett and Zalika Rizmal, ABC News, Updated 28 Jul 2019 It was nothing like the child sex abuse or banking royal commissions. No interrogations, no “gotcha” moments and only one...
Electroconvulsive therapy given without proper authorisation at Royal Darwin Hospital By Emilie Gramenz, ABC NEWS, Posted 15 Aug 2019 A young Aboriginal woman received two rounds of electroconvulsive therapy at the Royal Darwin Hospital without the proper...
