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Women with severe period cramps at risk of getting hooked on painkillers

Women with severe cramps are at risk of getting hooked on painkillers (Photo: iStock)

"It's crazy how slowly by slowly your life cannot function without painkillers. It starts as a way to ease the pain then there you are unable to function without painkillers, "Says Grace, a 34-year-old farmer who got addicted to painkillers after a farm injury.

When the leg injury occurred, Grace was on painkillers for a while until she realized that her life was centred around drugs.

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