I believe this is true but they won't admit it. When I wanted to get off it, I tried a new doctor and she refused to give me a script. When I asked "why" she said it was because it was "too cumbersome". Now what does that mean? So next time I asked her again and she said "it is too old fashioned". Yet, the chemist told me the new one she switched me to was older than the aropax!
Another new doctor and now my script comes with the words: "issued under the poisons act of Australia, clause 47, etc..."