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Patient in hospital bed has their hand held.

A liquid dropper is pulled out of a small brown glass bottle.

Woman smiles next to young girl who is in a wheelchair and wearing a breathing mask.

"People are already in situations that are highly stressful."

Packets of the opioid medicines Ordine, Sevredol and OxyNorm arranged on a table.

"It remains out of supply and the substitute product is prohibitively expensive, so effectively it's not available."

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