FEDERAL investigators want the ability to access patient information in the proposed national real-time prescription monitoring system (PD 16 Apr) in order to help identify "criminal entrepeneurs" who are diverting prescription opioids with the assistance of "complicit" pharmacists and doctors.
A submission to the TGA's consultation on tackling opioid abuse (PD 22 Jan 2018) by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, has suggested law enforcement agencies should have access to the data, to enable them to identify "misuse and exploitation of the prescription system".
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