Pain

A 78-year-old woman has overdosed after being given excess diazepam and codeine she was “addicted to” ahead of an Easter bank holiday weekend, a coroner has found.

Three members of an international drug gang have been sentenced for their role in the “large scale importation and distribution” of unregulated pharmaceutical drugs from India to the UK after police seized more than one million tablets.

A pharmacy in Mexico owned by a leading Sinaloa cartel family is facing sanctions, according to the US government.

A Lloydspharmacy worker who stole Ozempic from the Widnes pharmacy she worked at has been given a suspended sentence of 29 weeks in prison.

A “high-strength veterinary sedative” and 21 other “dangerous” drugs will be banned by the government, it has announced.   

Two men have been jailed over violent crimes – one for a serious assault on a woman that left witnesses “barricaded” in a nearby pharmacy and another for a series of knifepoint opioid robberies at pharmacies. 

The pharmacy negotiator has warned that one ADHD drug is in short supply, while some period delay and opioid dependency drugs will remain “out of stock” into the autumn.  

A pharmacist independent prescriber has been removed from the GPhC register after issuing tens of thousands of prescriptions using online questionnaires.

Applications are open for pharmacies following a “successful” pilot scheme and private prescribing clinics can also now register to offer on-island access to medicinal cannabis.

The multiple has cut the prices of pain medication in the UK so products are more affordable during the cost of living crisis, it has announced.