Heart disease is leading, but drug-induced death rates cause concern

Australia has recorded its highest number of drug-induced deaths in twenty years.

Prescription medications Source: AAP

The Australian Bureau of Statistics has released its annual report on the leading causes of death, which reveals drug-related deaths are at their highest since the late 1990s. 

Almost 70 per cent of drug-related deaths in Australia in 2016 were caused by prescription drugs.