A future of better pain management without codeine awaits Australia | Malcolm Hogg

Codeine is old hat yet still widely used in the community. We need better informed consumers with better educated and supported GPs and pharmacists

Codeine restriction is in keeping with our evolving understanding of pain and its best management.

My earliest memory of pain relates to Bex powders, which sat on our windowsill above the kitchen sink and were used daily to help with headaches, fevers and other pain. "Take a cup of tea, a Bex and a good lie down" was the approach to pain in the 1960s.