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Author Sally Gardner鈥檚 addiction to shopping has cost her 拢700k. She has only just discovered this compulsive behaviour is side effect of drugs she鈥檚 been prescribed for 20 years.

Sally is a Carnegie Medal and Costa Children鈥檚 Book Award-winning writer who suffers from a debilitating condition called Restless Legs Syndrome. To combat it she has taken drugs called dopamine agonists for two decades. When her children heard a 麻豆社 radio investigation revealing the extent of compulsive behaviour the drugs can induce, they realised her extreme behaviour was linked to these drugs. Sally is talking publicly about her ordeal for the first time.

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