Watch Prescribing Death: Australia’s Prescription Drug Crisis ‘The Feed’ Video

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“Behind closed doors in a big country town, a young woman cooks up a legal painkiller to produce a potentially lethal high.

“”Some people wake up and have breakfast. I wake up and have a shot,” she says. “That’s my breakfast.”

“Fentanyl is a high-strength opioid, prescribed by doctors and sold as slow-release patches to relieve the constant pain of cancer patients.

“But used like this, it can kill.

“The practice is dubbed “Russian roulette” because users cannot predict how much fentanyl they’re drawing into the syringe.

“That means the solution can end up being highly potent and even deadly.”

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