Nataly Martini provides a brief overview of selected causes of dizziness and vertigo, such as benign paroxysmal positional vertigo and vestibular migraine. Through case studies, she explains how these conditions may differ from serious clinical syndromes such as cervicogenic dizziness, highlighting the complexities, risk factors and management of these conditions
Calls for monitoring due to reports of Habitrol fuelling prison violence
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Calls for monitoring due to reports of Habitrol fuelling prison violence
Thursday 4 April 2024, 03:16 PM
Smokers admitted to prison are given up to four weeks’ worth of Habitrol lozenges [Image - New Zealand Doctor]
There are concerns some people are going around pharmacies getting large quantities of nicotine replacement products and smuggling them into prisons. Natasha Jojoa Burling reports
Pharmacists have renewed calls for a national monitoring system for sales of Habitrol after reports have emerged that the nicotine replacement therapy, Nancy_Nasef, Auckland pharmacy owner Nancy Nasef says an ex-prisoner told her new prisoners were getting beaten up for their nicotine lozenges [Image: Supplied]