The prescription drug pregabalin has been linked to a number of deaths in the UK and around the world. Many users buy the drug illegally on the black market, often from unregulated websites.

Once thought to be a safer alternative to traditional medications, there are growing fears about the drug’s crushing side effects In the services of investigative journalism, Miranda Levy has given up ...

There has been a significant rise in deaths linked to the commonly prescribed anxiety drug, pregabalin. While in 2018 there were 187 deaths linked to pregabalin in England and Wales, this number was ...

A drug widely used to treat anxiety has "devastated" the life of a woman whose partner died after an overdose. Haley Selby said Brian Rees took pregabalin in capsules he had bought from a "mate". A GP ...