“I decided to take a dose again for a severe headache a few weeks later,” Rachel remembers. “I’ve always experienced very bad headaches, which paracetamol and ibuprofen have zero effect on. Usually I ...

Nicola Sturgeon's sister has told how she was prescribed the common painkiller co-codamol after getting whiplash on a fairground ride - only to become so addicted she 'slept away' two years of her ...