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Addiction to prescription drugs is UK 'public health disaster'

Doctors and politicians are calling for urgent action to help people who get hooked on prescription painkillers, antidepressants and anti-anxiety medicines

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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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Humans

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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Technology

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

Insight

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Technology

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

Waste water tests show the pharmaceuticals they contain are mainly excreted, suggesting that more expensive treatment may be needed to deal with them

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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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Three questions to ask your doctor before any treatment

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