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Tara Cosoleto

UNCOVERED: National script check system urged after boy s death - The Untold Story

A boy got 60 opioid tablets a day before he died after visiting three doctors and three pharmacies. (Flavio Brancaleone/AAP PHOTOS)

GPs should be required by law to follow real-time prescription monitoring to ensure their patients are not "doctor shopping" for medication, a coroner has recommended.

A 16-year-old Victorian boy, known as LI, died from a drug overdose after obtaining pain medication from 70 doctors in the year before his death.

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