The Barr government will introduce legislation to track the prescription of drugs across Canberra when the ACT's parliament sits this week.

A real-time prescription drug monitoring scheme was one of two recommendations made after a coronial inquiry into the death of 21-year-old Canberra man Paul Fennessy.

Paul Fennessy died of an overdose of prescription medication in 2010. Credit:Rohan Thomson

Mr Fennessy, whose fatal overdose of prescription drugs in January 2010 was the subject of The Canberra Times' podcast Losing Paul, was an experienced doctor-shopper.

In the three years before his death, Mr Fennessy had obtained and filled more than 150 prescriptions from 18 doctors across Canberra.