My Sunday Times piece about prescription drug addiction, which I wrote in 2010

Here is a piece on prescription drug addiction in the US that I wrote

I went to my appointment with "Dr C' in Los Angeles with a shopping list of the most commonly abused types of drug: pain relievers, tranquillisers, stimulants and sedatives. Beforehand, a local addiction specialist, Bernadine Fried, had briefed me on how to approach your doctor like an addict and still come away with fistfuls of pills.

The script went li…