Government adviser calls for change in culture on painkillers with greater focus on social issues.
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Jill Reidy says she had to look to Europe to source the medication she needs to treat depression.
Ernest Chemists in Ghana has a vision of developing locally-made drugs to treat African patients.
Jaspar Ojela illegally bought thousands of prescription pills and sold them without holding licenses.
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Jordan Henderson took the forms from Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary in a bid to obtain painkillers.
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Medical professionals say shortages of commonly prescribed drugs are currently worse than ever before - impacting on patient care and potentially costing lives. The government has banned the export of some medications from the UK in an attempt to protect dwindling supplies but desperate patients are still travelling abroad to get the medication they need or, rationing their supply or going without treatments entirely. File on 4 examines the complex supply network behind the medication we’re prescribed and finds out how a single broken link in the fragile chain can impact patients, doctors and pharmacists alike. Speaking to worried insiders, exasperated clinicians and patients left too frightened to leave the house, the programme uncovers a long-running crisis at the very centre of our health care system. Reporter: Adrian Goldberg Producer: Steven Hobson Editor: Carl Johnston Image credit: Hiraman\Getty
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File on 4
File on 4 looks at the impact Britain's medicine shortage crisis is having on patients.
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Isle of Man health chiefs want to give pharmacists powers to alter or limit prescription medicines.
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Donald Trump has urged China to crack down on the drug, which is 50 times more potent than heroin.
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A review by the local authority comes after the number of drug deaths in Middlesbrough doubled.
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