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How I got addicted to painkillers

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How I got addicted to painkillers

As the UK government calls for urgent action to help people hooked on prescription drugs, Cathryn Kemp explains what it is like to find yourself addicted to painkillers

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Addiction to prescription drugs is UK 'public health disaster'

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The price of my life: $1.6 million and counting

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What are you worth? How we calculate the value of a life

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A person injecting themselves with the anti-inflammatory drug Humira

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Anti-inflammatory drugs can relieve symptoms of depression

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Kratom ban rethink is a hint of sanity in failed US war on drugs

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Children with fatal muscle disease walk after drug breakthrough

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Could sex hormones help addicted women stop taking opioids?

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Could sex hormones help addicted women stop taking opioids?

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Gene-reading software to cut TB diagnosis from months to minutes

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Our water is full of drugs and we don't know their effects

Water reuse means we are all consuming a cocktail of other people's leftover medicines, but measuring their impact is almost impossible. It's time we clean up our act

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Myth busted: dumped pills aren't main source of drugs in sewage

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Doctors must let patients decide whether to take statins

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Putting healthcare first can save festival drug users from harm

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Drug-induced abortion less safe in Ohio after 2011 law

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