While the nation is focused on the scourge of ice, accidental drug deaths from opioids are at the highest they have been in five years in the ACT. The number of opioid-related deaths in 2013 and 2014 in Canberra was almost twice the number of people who died in motor vehicle crashes over the same period, an independent evaluation into the ACT Naloxone trial has found. Opioids are defined as medications that relieve pain and include prescription drugs such as oxycodone and morphine, and illicit drugs such as heroin. More than half of the 32 deaths recorded in the ACT in the two-year period involved the use of heroin. The evaluation was produced for ACT Health by the Burnett Institute, Curtin...
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