A coroner has written to the Culture Secretary warning of the dangers of unregulated websites after a “highly talented” teaching fellow died after taking a cocktail of prescription-only drugs.
Dr Kimberly Liu, a Harvard Law School graduate who was a teaching fellow at Durham University, had repeatedly bought sedatives online for four years before her death, an inquest heard.
She died from taking a cocktail of prescription-only medicines she had bought from illicit websites. The 40-year-old had become addicted to sleeping pills and painkillers, the hearing was told.
But while her GP had prescribed her some medications, Liu had regularly sought out others on the internet.
Liu was found unresponsive by her husband at her London home in February 2023 and was pronounced dead due to “mixed drug toxicity”.
Assistant coroner Ian Potter has now written to Lucy Frazer, the Culture Secretary, warning about the dangers of the unregulated websites used by Dr Liu.
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