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Panorama: Hooked on Painkillers

04/11/2015 GMT

Hooked on Painkillers

BBC News - Panorama, Hooked on Painkillers

Reporter Declan Lawn meets patients who have been hooked on painkillers for years.

Reporter Declan Lawn meets patients who have been hooked on painkillers for years and he goes inside the NHS clinic helping them kick the prescription habit.

Doctors in the UK are prescribing record doses of highly addictive painkillers. Around four million people are now taking opioids - drugs that are closely related to heroin. Reporter Declan Lawn meets patients who have been hooked on painkillers for years and he goes inside the NHS clinic helping them kick the prescription habit.

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