A husband-to-be who was so addicted to co-codamol he would take 48 a day says his wife saved his life by giving him the ultimatum: 'choose me or the drug'. Ben Welthy was first prescribed the drug for ...

“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 ...

The NHS has issued a warning over a common painkiller used by millions of people in the UK every year. Pharmacists alone hand out 650,000 prescriptions of the drug to tens of millions annually. While ...

Every morning, as soon as I wake up, I reach for the glass of water on my bedside table and swallow two small white tablets. They are co-codamol painkillers, and the first of 12 such tablets I will ...