‘Addictive’ Anti-Anxiety Drug Pregabalin Involved In Fastest Rising Number of Overdoses

A medication prescribed to around eight million Brits to treat anxiety, epilepsy, and nerve pain has the fastest rising death toll of any drug in the UK, analysis has shown. Figures from the Office of National Statistics, examined by the Times of London, pointed to a huge spike in pregabalin-related deaths. In 2012, the drug was indicated in nine fatalities. By 2022, the number had risen to 779—with almost 3,400 pregabalin-linked deaths in the past five years. The latest figures echo an investigation by The Epoch Times last year, which looked at drug poisoning statistics for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and revealed the prescription pill has been increasingly listed as either a cause or contributing factor in deaths across the UK....