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Heartbroken mum tells inquest 'addictive drug prescribed for anxiety helped kill my son'

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A heartbroken mum has made an impassioned plea for restrictions on the prescription of a highly addictive drug used to treat people suffering from mental illness in the wake of her son's death from an unintentional overdose.

An inquest heard how after 27-year-old software test engineer Alex Cottam became hooked on the drug Pregabalin after his GP prescribed it for his anxiety and depression.

Assistant coroner for Manchester West Rachel Syed heard how once Alex had become hooked on the drug he began ordering it online from a source in the UK.

Other prescription drugs he ordered using the internet were sedatives, benzodiapene, dihydrocodein and tramadol. READ MORE:'Three families' lives will have been ruined': Street in shock after Salford suspected murder He was found dead in his Memorial Road, Salford, flat on September 1, 2021, after taking what the hearing concluded was an unintentional overdose of all of these drugs.

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