The first programme in a two-part enquiry in which Christopher Brasher investigates the safety of drugs.
Tonight he looks at the common drugs which so many of us take every week: the pain-killers like aspirin, phenacetin, paracetamol and codeine; the amphetamines prescribed to help us slim; and the sleeping tablets.
These are drugs which we take in vast quantities and in many cases we regard them as harmless - but they certainly were not harmless to some of the people in this programme...
(The second part of the investigation is on Friday at 9.25 pm.)
Not what the doctor ordered: page 5