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Volume 215, Issue 9 - 1 November 2021

MJA Podcasts 2021 Episode 46: Barbiturates have become a drug of self-harm, with Professor Shane Darke

Vol 215, Issue 9: 1 November 2021. Professor Shane Darke is from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at UNSW Sydney. He discusses trends in barbiturate use over the past two decades. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell. WARNING: This podcast contains discussions of self-harm and suicide. If this raises issues for you, please reach out for help -- DRS4DRS: 1300 374 377; Lifeline 13 11 14; beyondblue: 1300 22 4636; Suicide Call Back Service: 1300 659 467. Professor Darke's research can be found at https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2021/216/2/barbiturate-related-hospitalisations-drug-treatment-episodes-and-deaths ... 15 mins, 10 secs.