Amy Pain seemed to have everything going for her. Beautiful. Intelligent. Only 22. The daughter of a highly respected archdeacon of the Anglican Church in Wales.

Amy died after an accidental overdose of prescription drugs she had bought from a no-prescription pharmacy for insomnia, anxiety and stomach aches.

Her archdeacon father found the girl dead in her bed last October. Last week during an official inquest, coroner David Bowen cited the ease with which drugs could be purchased online without a prescription as a contributing factor in Amy’s death.

Read more about Amy’s story, and the larger problems of no-prescription pharmacies in the U.K., here.

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