More and more Britons are being prescribed potentially addictive medicines like sleeping pills, opioids and other painkillers, raising the risk of a drug crisis like the one in the United States, health officials in London said today.
The medicines included anti-anxiety drugs called benzodiazepines and sleeping pills known as z-drugs, as well as epilepsy and anxiety medicines gabapentin and pregabalin, antidepressants and opioid pain medicines. "This means more people are at risk of becoming addicted to them or having problems when they stop using them," PHE said.
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