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" Over the counter (OTC) medications still hold risks for addiction, doctors cautioned today. GPs Christine Ford and Beth Good write in the British Medical Journal that they have watched three patients become addicted to an OTC drug which contains ibuprofen and codeine. An opiate which is sometimes used by heroin addicts when they do not have access to their drug of choice, codeine can be found in OTC medications compound form in the UK. Dr Ford told the BBC that the medications containing codeine are not dangerous in the majority of cases, saying: &amp;quot;Thousands and thousands of people take these drugs and don&amp;#039;t have any problems. It&amp;#039;s a very small minority who do.&amp;quot;  However, she added that the article was written to draw doctors&amp;#039; attention to the risk of patient dependency on OTC drugs, of which her observations may be &amp;quot;the tip of the iceberg&amp;quot;.  Medicines containing codeine are commonly used for such maladies as cough, backache and diarrhoea. \u00A9 Adfero Ltd "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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