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    The document discusses the rising issue of prescription pill popping in Australia. Some key points: - The number of people being treated in hospital emergency departments for prescription drug addiction has risen dramatically in the past five years. - The use of the painkiller Oxycodone has increased by 400% since 1991. - Addiction to painkillers is being driven partly by the rising availability of cheaper prescription drugs. - One expert notes that Australians are the biggest users of painkillers in the world.

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    The document discusses the rising issue of prescription pill popping in Australia. Some key points: - The number of people being treated in hospital emergency departments for prescription drug addiction has risen dramatically in the past five years. - The use of the painkiller Oxycodone has increased by 400% since 1991. - Addiction to painkillers is being driven partly by the rising availability of cheaper prescription drugs. - One expert notes that Australians are the biggest users of painkillers in the world.

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    The document discusses the rising issue of prescription pill popping in Australia. Some key points: - The number of people being treated in hospital emergency departments for prescription drug addiction has risen dramatically in the past five years. - The use of the painkiller Oxycodone has increased by 400% since 1991. - Addiction to painkillers is being driven partly by the rising availability of cheaper prescription drugs. - One expert notes that Australians are the biggest users of painkillers in the world.

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    PRESCRIPTION PILL POPPING SOARS Questions

    Circle the most appropriate answer a, b, c or d.

    Q1 The author states that


    a. People being treated in hospital emergency departments has risen
    dramatically in the past five years
    b. The number of emergency departments n Victoria have more than doubled in
    the past five years
    c. The number of prescription painkillers has doubled in the past five years.
    d. Victorians addicted to painkillers and requiring hospital treatment has risen
    by more than 100% in the past five years

    Q2 The use of Oxycodone


    a. has risen 40-fold since 1991
    b. the use of morphine tablets has quadrupled
    c. has gone up, since 1991, by 400%
    d. Oxycodone painkillers have gained popularity amongst an ageing population

    Q3 According to this journalist (Jill Stark, The Sunday Age, 27 Sept 2009)
    a. Medical experts will be reporting to an Australian Drugs Conference later in
    October, 2009
    b. Health specialists, including pain management specialists, arranged an
    Australia-wide seminar in Melbourne
    c. Medical experts and others will present a plan to solve the crisis by the end
    of 2009.
    d. The Clinical Director of Alcohol & Drug Services, Southern and Eastern Heatlh
    asserts that the number of painkiller addicts has doubled during the past
    year.

    Q4 Addiction to painkillers is underpinned by:


    a. 50% drop in heroin use
    b. heroin is becoming more readily available
    c. a rise in orthopaedic surgeries
    d. partly due to the availability of cheaper prescription drugs

    Q5 According to Richard Smith:

    a. Australians are the biggest users of analgesics in the world


    b. Australians were following in the footsteps of Hollywood celebrities
    c. People with back injuries get relief from strong pain killers
    d. Paracetamol and aspirin were popular forms of painkillers in the U.S.
    Q6 The article refers to addicted patients:

    a. Who should be asking for other alternatives such as psychotherapy rather


    than a prescription for painkillers
    b. Using a variety of strategies to get prescriptions filled.
    c. Going from one doctor to another to get a prescription filled.
    d. Pressuring overworked GP’s to write out another prescription.

    Q7 Reported statistics:

    a. 30% of patients received pain relief from painkillers


    b. In two thirds of patients, painkillers had better effect than nothing at all.
    c. Patients using painkillers reported a 30% reduction in pain
    d. Painkillers were successful in 66% of patients.

    Q8 The start of column 3, This shift, which Dr Frei believes … refers to


    a. Painkiller addicts now attend Dandenong Hospital rather than Monash
    Medical
    b. The increase in addict numbers
    c. As painkiller addict numbers have risen, there’s abeen a decrease in heroin
    abusers
    d. As painkiller addict numbers have risen, there’s been a decrease in heroin
    abuse users

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