Gill Owens was prescribed the medicine for pain relief after she threw her neck back on a fairground ride with her daughter and was told by a doctor she had whiplash.

NICOLA Sturgeon’s sister has revealed she had a secret addiction to drugs. Gillian Owens, 50, says her craving for strong painkillers saw her knocking back 12 pills a day and when she ...

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

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 ...

The NHS has issued a warning about the prolonged use of co-codamol, a commonly used painkiller taken by millions of people across the UK each year. Tens of millions of prescriptions for co-codamol are ...

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 ...

The NHS has issued a stark warning regarding a widely-used painkiller taken by millions across Britain annually. Tens of millions of co-codamol prescriptions are dispensed each year, with chemists ...

A mother-of-one has been battling a co-codamol addiction for nearly ten years, after she was first prescribed the drug following surgery on her ovaries. Carrie Stafford, 30, from Manchester, was ...

Supplies of prescription-strength co-codamol will be limited until the summer, the Scottish government has confirmed. A UK-wide shortage of the strongest form of the painkiller - the 30/500mg dosage - ...

14:48, Thu, Feb 19, 2026 Updated: 14:48, Thu, Feb 19, 2026 Patients have been urged to ration supplies of the painkiller co-codamol amid a UK-wide shortage expected to last for months. Pharmacists ...