NHS spending on addictive opioid painkillers has doubled since the pandemic, new analysis show.
READ MORE:NHS spending on addictive opioid painkillers has doubled since the pandemic, new analysis shows.
It comes as waiting lists for routine NHS care, such as hip and knee replacements, continue to rise, hitting 7.64million as of the end of August.The Royal College of Surgeons has warned that hundreds of thousands of patients are 'continuing to live in pain on waiting lists'. The Emmy-award winning TV show Dopesick received critical acclaim last year for its exploration of the opioid crisis in the United States.
TV show Dopesick told the story of OxyContin, a codeine-containing painkiller that was liked to mass addiction and hundreds of thousands of deaths in America He said: 'Coming off tramadol was hard. I had to see my GP for help and it took about three months of reducing the dose, knocking it down by 50 mg less a week.Anne, 60, from Norwich, began taking painkillers following an accident in 2016.
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