The impact of Victoria’s real time prescription monitoring system (SafeScript) on a cohort of people who inject drugs

To the Editor: Fetene and colleagues1 describe refusal to prescribe or dispense prescriptions to some of their study cohort of people who inject drugs (PWIDs) and concern that their mental health treatment needs may not be met due to SafeScript, Victoria’s real time prescription monitoring system. SafeScript is a live electronic database providing information about the prescribing and dispensing of monitored medicines to each patient, instantly available in real time on a prescriber’s or pharmacist’s desktop (https://www2.health.vic.gov.au/safescript).