Accidental opioid deaths on rise: report

By Belinda Tasker
Updated August 20 2018 - 8:36am, first published 6:56am
More than a thousand Australians died of an opioid overdose in 2016.
More than a thousand Australians died of an opioid overdose in 2016.

The number of Australians dying after accidentally overdosing on prescription opioids such as oxycodone is on the rise.

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