On a snapshot day in 2015, over 48,000 clients received pharmacotherapy treatment for their opioid dependence at 2,589 dosing points around Australia.
As in previous year, methadone was the most common pharmacotherapy drug, with around two-thirds (66%) of clients treated with this drug. There were 2,556 prescribers of opioid pharmacotherapy drugs, an increase of 9% from 2014.