Ross Kemp: Living with... - Season 2 - Eps 3: Painkiller Addiction
An investigation into the problem of addiction to opioids - opium-derived drugs - which are used in powerful prescription painkillers. Ross meets a woman who ended up with a serious addiction after being prescribed drugs for her bad back. He also learns about fentanyl, a painkiller used in cancer treatment, which can be much stronger than heroin and is being advertised for sale illegally in the UK. Ross comes face to face with a drug dealer who has started cutting fentanyl into his product and meets a former chemist whose daughter died from an overdose after taking heroin laced with the drug.
About Ross Kemp: Living with...
Title: Ross Kemp: Living with...
First Air Date: 2019-07-25
Last Air Date: 2020-07-02
Status: Ended
Rating: 6/10 (from 1 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 2
Total Episodes: 8
Network: ITV1
Genres: Unknown
Production Companies: Unknown
Synopsis
Ross Kemp travels across the country to meet people living with some of the biggest issues affecting Britain today, including immersing himself in situations to gain a first-hand taste of the difficulties they face and highlight what is really going on, often unnoticed, under the nose of mainstream society.
