Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox A young man who became addicted to painkillers after being prescribed them for a bad back was found dead at a friend's house after taking an overdose, an inquest heard.
James Thornton-Chan, 22, died at a house on Stockport Road in Manchester on July 14, 2019. A toxicology report found the presence of dihydrocodeine in his system 'at a level which would explain his death'.
Mr Thornton-Chan, who was born in the High Peak in Derbyshire, was prescribed codeine after complaining of back pain. He attended his GP practice in Bramhall in July 2018 and told a doctor he had taken a number of codeine tablets over the previous 24 hours as a result of the pain he was
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