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For two decades, Chloe Montgomery's daily life was propped up by super-strong painkillers - and she went to great lengths to make sure her loved ones never suspected a thing. Now aged 36, the  property sales executive, who lives near…

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 recently prescribed the painkiller again…

Abby Johnson was in agonising pain from gallstones, so when her GP prescribed codeine, she took it without a second thought.But within a year the 35-year-old was so hooked on the painkiller that she would use her month's prescription –…