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The Fix: 'On the outside I looked like this professional, educated, middle-class woman... and I was a raging drug addict'
In a new series of 'The Fix', Millie Chowles reports on prescription painkillers. She speaks to Helen who was abusing strong prescription painkillers for back pain and unable to stop.
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