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She added that some admissions were the result of the patient having taken up to 90 tablets in a day. The average across the 99 cases was 28 pills, which was still almost five times the recommended daily dose.
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"When the Therapeutic Goods Administration announced its decision to reschedule all low dose combination analgesics containing codeine (CACC) preparations to prescription-only, there were some arguments made against the move," Johnson said on Tuesday.
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