“I decided to take a dose again for a severe headache a few weeks later,” Rachel remembers. “I’ve always experienced very bad headaches, which paracetamol and ibuprofen have zero effect on. Usually I ...

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 ...