Drug Overdoses Kill More Than Five Australians a Day: Report
More than five Australians died from drugs overdoses every day in 2019, says a new report by the National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC).
According to the annual report released on Thursday, over 1,860 Australians lost their lives to drugs in 2019, with the majority of the deaths deemed unintentional.
This marks Australia’s fifth year in a row where the country’s number of drug-induced deaths is higher than the earlier peak observed in the late 1990s.
The report also found that cocaine-induced deaths have more than doubled since 2016, while the number of deaths owing to amphetamine is four times higher than a decade ago.
David Aylen
Covid-19 has compounded the Russian government s determination to push on with its localisation agenda and to move quickly on many other healthcare-related initiatives, such as online pharmacies. Gowlings’ comprehensive report, now in its third edition, presents an invaluable status report and extensive review of the trademark aspects of the pharmaceutical industry in Russia today – a market valued at almost $30 billion, according to the recent Deloitte report “Russian Pharmaceutical Trends in 2020”.
With a population of 145 million people, Russia has the world’s 14th largest pharmaceutical market in terms of volume of sales, with almost 8% annual market growth before the pandemic. At the same time, more than 70% of medicines in the commercial sector are imported from abroad.