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Crippling crisis Australia is ignoring

Australia is facing a drug addiction crisis that’s hiding in plain sight, with 750,000 people already hooked on substances that are deadlier than heroin and which snare 50,000 new victims each year. The number of powerful opioid medications prescribed by doctors has boomed in recent years and so too have deaths from the legally available… Read More »

The £12 powder that fixed my crippling IBS

Lucy Powell’s IBS had her running to the loo 15 times a day, avoiding intimacy and holding herself back at work.  Then an over-the-counter powder changed everything – Anna Magee reports 21 years ago, just after the birth of her first child Lucy Powell got a nasty bout of gastroenteritis, which included severe fever, vomiting,… Read More »