This will include a real-time prescription drugs monitoring system, which could prevent the deaths of up to 90 Victorians over the next five years, along with reducing the amount of overdoses.
It will allow workers at thousands of clinics, pharmacies and hospitals to do an on-the-spot check before prescribing or dispensing medications.
Head of the Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association, Sam Biondi has told the ABC it will help a huge number of people.
"Our view is that it's not all about street-based drug users, there are many citizens in our community - people who have been involved in accidents, undergone painful surgery and suffering considerable pain, or been victims of workplace injuries that are on pain management regimes, when they do get into trouble because of the prolonged usage of medications."
Additional counselling and treatment and more training for healthworkers to help them identify prescription drug abusers will also be implemented.
