03-06-2025
Millions take more than 10 pills a day. Now doctors warn results can be catastrophic, patients aren't being told - and the drug cocktails you must avoid
Tony Courtney Brown was a far-from-well man when he was taking 24 tablets a day for half a dozen complaints.
Then in his early 60s, he was being treated for depression with three antidepressants, and was given higher and higher doses of the opioid painkiller tramadol, along with gabapentin, both for back pain.