%T National opioid pharmacotherapy statistics annual data collection: 2011 report




%I Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
%D 2012

%K Public health, %K Drugs and alcohol



%U https://apo.org.au/node/29868

%X This report presents data from the 2011 National Opioid Pharmacotherapy  Statistics Annual Data collection, highlighting  the prescribed drugs that clients in Australia took to help manage opioid  dependence. 

Characteristics of the clients, prescribers and dosing point sites  where the pharmacotherapy drugs were dispensed are also presented. The  data are based on a ‘snapshot’ period—usually a day—in June 2011. On the  snapshot day in 2011, there were 46,446 clients and 1,444 prescribers.
Clients receiving opioid treatment are getting older.
%9 Report