Monday 23 June 2008

Over the counter drug addictions - what can be done?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-502153/Mother-dies-developing-48-tablet-day-addiction-Nurofen-Plus.html

 

If someone says to you 'they're on drugs' what do you think of? Heroin, crack, ecstasy, cannabis, speed, cocaine? Probably one of the last thing you might say, after naming a dozen 'street drugs', is Nurofen Plus. As a nation we choose to ignore legal, medical drug addictions – or do we just not know they exist? Thousands of people in the UK are currently addicted to tablets you may think of as nothing more than a head ache cure. The question is, what can be done about addictions of this nature – should all potentially physically addictive drugs be made prescription only?

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