UK: Pregabalin "bajo sospecha"...

 

March 03 2024, The Sunday Times

The drug that helped Alex Cottam turn his life around was also the one that ended up killing him.

Cottam, a 27-year-old software engineer, had been prescribed pregabalin to help him with the anxiety and depression that he had been battling with ever since his father James died 14 years earlier.

At first pregabalin helped him feel normal and thrive at work. But Cottam soon became reliant on its powerful effects, which led to dependency and the use of other prescription drugs. He died of an unintentional overdose two years after first taking pregabalin.

"It's hard to imagine somebody's whole life revolved around a pill, but it did," said his mother, Michelle."It completely changed him, it was like an obsession."