off-label prescription of medicines in Australia is a growing phenomenon..." “Off-label” use of medicines is not expressly defined in the Act, and as such the term is used loosely in Australia.

These medications do not need a prescription because they are safe and easy to use and usually have few side effects. In Australia, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) checks all ...

with a growing dependence on prescription pain-killers. Australia at one point recorded the world's ninth highest per capita consumption of opioids. Geoff Munroe from the Australian Drug ...