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Powder without glory
The history of addictive painkillers Bex and Vincent’s reveals the ruthlessness of Big Pharma and the patriarchal control of women “A cup of tea, a Bex and a good lie down.” It was a catchphrase of near genius. It entered the Australian vernacular in the …