the bbc has filmed patrols by afghanistan s ministry for preventing vice and promoting virtue as they enforce the taliban s strict new laws, most of them targeting women. along with a raft of hard line laws, they announced the face veil will be compulsory for women in public. now on bbc news, we take a look at an in depth look at chronic pain and those living with it. this is the story of lives that have been changed in an instant. i am a shell of the person that i used to be. i wish i could turn the clock back. this is the story of chronic pain, described as relentless, debilitating, overwhelming. thousands of people have told us how their lives are controlled by a condition that is often hidden from view. the world around me is advancing and i m trapped in a room that s the killer. it s poorly understood and often misdiagnosed. i don t think we are equipped, either as a society or as a healthcare system, to deal with that. there is the toll taken by the medication that mi
hello, this is bbc news. the headlines. russian troops have withdrawn from ukraine s second biggiest city kharkiv, according to its mayor. it s been under constant bombardment since the invasion began. finland tells president putin it plans to join nato, as russia stops supplying the country with electricity, accusing it of not paying for previous deliveries. a ban on buy one get one free deals on unhealthy food in england is to be put on hold for a year. the uk government says it s to help families cope with the cost of living crisis. here in the uk, 50 migrants are told that the government intends to send them to rwanda the first to be removed under new immigration plans. shaun will be here to take you through the afternoon but now bbc news hears stories from people across the uk, who are in constant pain. this is the story of lives that have been changed in an instant. i am a shell of the person that i used to be. i wish i could turn the clock back. this is the story of
the highly addictive drug fentanyl, because of a rare and excruciatingly painful nerve condition which started 20 years ago. it is as if somebody stuck a cattle prod to the side of my face. it s extraordinary, overwhelming pain. i literally hit the floor and it basically destroyed my life. 0pioid painkillers, including codeine, fentanyl and morphine, are a huge benefit to some people but they are generally only recommended for short term pain. niki has learnt pain management techniques which means she can now cope without taking fentanyl but she has been left with a dangerous dependency that leads to withdrawal when she reduces her dose. this is the patch that i am on, the fentanyl patch. the patch is actually these orange y bits? yes, and you can see this one is a whole one and i ve cut off little bits. this is not the proper way of doing it.
it basically destroyed my life. 0pioid painkillers, including codeine, fentanyl and morphine, are a huge benefit to some people but they are generally only recommended for short term pain. niki has learnt pain management techniques which means she can now cope without taking fentanyl but she has been left with a dangerous dependency that leads to withdrawal when she reduces her dose. this is the patch that i am on, the fentanyl patch. the patch is actually these orange y bits? yes, and you can see this one is a whole one and i ve cut off little bits. this is not the proper way of doing it. they want you to drop down by a whole patch. there is no real exit strategy for these patches. in a bid to withdraw safely, niki shaves off tiny slithers from her fentanyl patches, less than a millimetre at a time. every time i reduce my opioids, my pain increases as i go through the withdrawal process.