Doctors take drugs out of surgeries
Doctors have stopped keeping certain drugs in their surgeries and cars because of the upsurge in drug-related burglaries, according to the Canterbury branch chairman of the Royal Society of General Practitioners, Dr Robert Aitken.
Doctors no longer kept strong analgesics or codeine-based drugs—used in home-bake drugs—in stock, he said. They had also increased security and most practices had signs saying that there were no narcotics on the premises.
About eight Christchurch surgeries and doctors’ cars have been burgled in the last month.
Steps taken to deter thieves seeking drugs, however, meant that some drugs were not available to patients.
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Press, 25 July 1986, Page 5
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