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Libido-suppressing drug Zoladex should be on PBS to treat sex offenders, psychiatrist Danny Sullivan says
BY LOUISE MILLIGAN
April 8, 2014
One of Australia’s leading forensic psychiatrists is pushing for a libido-suppressing drug to be listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) to treat serial sex offenders.
Dr Danny Sullivan of Forensicare has worked with some of the most notorious rapists, paedophiles and killers in the Victorian criminal justice system.
Dr Sullivan says the drug, clinically known as an LHRH agonist and marketed as Zoladex, has been successful in reducing recidivism rates of sex offenders overseas, particularly in the US state of Oregon.
“In Oregon, the Government passed legislation in the early 1990s that all sexual offenders leaving prison would be assessed for medication to reduce their sexual drive,” Dr Sullivan has told the ABC’s 7.30 program.
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