Claim: One in four people is hooked on prescription drugs.
Fact-check: We can't say how many people are 'hooked on' prescription drugs - Full Fact
Verdict: incorrect. research by public health england into the prescribing of five specific types of drug found there wasn't enough evidence to say how many people were addicted. one in four adults in england received a prescription for at least one of the drug types they looked at in 2017/18.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Claire Milne
Date published: 2019-09-12T00:00:00