Jason Wyse, the chief executive of the Silkworth Charity Group, says that the organisation has seen a dramatic rise in the number of clients contacting it with addictions to prescription medication – particularly painkillers.
Those medications, he says, include both those that have been prescribed for specific conditions, after which patients have become addicted, and those taken by recreational drug users as an alternative to traditional drugs such as heroin, which is in short supply in the Island.
Mr Wyse is the subject of the Saturday Interview in today’s Jersey Evening Post
