Panorama. [Series 63, Episode 42], Hooked on painkillers / producer & director, Steven Hobson ; BBC Panorama.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Hobson, Steve, director, producer.

Lawn, Declan, director, producer.

BBC Worldwide Learning, film distributor.

British Broadcasting Corporation, production company.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medication abuse.

Opioid abuse.

Analgesics.

Genre:

Documentary television programs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (30 minutes)

Place of Publication:

London, England : BBC Worldwide, 2015.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

Panorama investigates the increasing number of opioid painkillers being prescribed at family doctor level, with one leading pain specialist now seeing patients at pain clinics on doses well above the amount believed to be effective. The rise in the use of these painkillers, which come from the same chemical family as heroin, could be putting these patients at higher risk of side effects - including addiction - with potentially little effect on their chronic pain. The team travels to Kentucky in the US to look at the effect opioids have had on areas there, finding that many people are abusing prescription medications, and in the UK meets a person who became seriously addicted after being prescribed opioids following surgery.

Participant:

Reporter: Declan Lawn.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed February 26, 2019).

OCLC:

1096494776