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Taking expensive medicines or ones unavailable in Australia? Importing may be the answer

  • Written by Jacinta L. Johnson, Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, University of South Australia
Taking expensive medicines or ones unavailable in Australia? Importing may be the answershurkin_son/Shutterstock

The cost-of-living crisis may be driving some Australians to look for cheaper medicines, especially if those medicines are not subsidised or people don’t have a Medicare card. Options can include buying their medicines from overseas, in a process called “personal importation”.

Others also use this option...

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