A MUM who was prescribed co-codamol for an innocent injury ended up spiralling into an addiction so severe that she faced ...

“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 ...

Coronation Street star Melanie Hill has opened up about her addiction to painkillers. The actress, who plays Cathy Matthews on the ITV soap, revealed that she struggled to stop taking co-codamol after ...