Pictured: Kayla Oldfield
Re: A young mother died from using strong painkillers prescribed to a relative who was taking them for cancer.
Kayla Oldfield, 28, had chronic back pain but the tablets she was given by her doctor didn’t help.
An inquest heard Kayla started using Oxicodol which were meant for her partner’s dying mother.
But she was unaware of the correct dose and took so many it killed her, the hearing was told.
Her partner Richard Hatch, 34,...
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Pictured: Kayla Oldfield
Re: A young mother died from using strong painkillers prescribed to a relative who was taking them for cancer.
Kayla Oldfield, 28, had chronic back pain but the tablets she was given by her doctor didn’t help.
An inquest heard Kayla started using Oxicodol which were meant for her partner’s dying mother.
But she was unaware of the correct dose and took so many it killed her, the hearing was told.
Her partner Richard Hatch, 34, came home from picking their six-year-old son up from school to find Kayla “unresponsive” on the settee.
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