Five people die from overdoses every day

By Belinda Tasker
Updated August 28 2018 - 12:06am, first published 12:01am
Five Australians die every day from drug overdoses, mostly from prescription opioids.
Five Australians die every day from drug overdoses, mostly from prescription opioids.

Sleeping pills and anti-anxiety drugs have become the nation's "silent killers", with the number of people dying from the prescription drugs more than doubling in a decade.

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