The two million Britons hooked on painkillers: Prescription drugs acquired from friends, dealers and online are used to get high
The number of people abusing medication doled out by doctors to someone else has reached almost two million.
Experts have warned of a ‘grey market’ in legally prescribed painkillers and antidepressants, often acquired from friends, dealers or online.
It has prompted growing concern that Britain is seeing the first signs of dangerous US-style levels in the abuse of prescription drugs to get high.
The Office for National Statistics found 5.4 per cent of those aged 16-59, misused painkillers in the past year – 1.8million in total – including 520,000 under-25s.
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