The footballer Dele Alli was applauded recently after he spoke of his sleeping pill abuse. ‘It’s a problem not only I have. It’s going around more than people realise in football,’ he said during a filmed interview with Manchester United’s former captain Gary Neville.
It’s not the first time we’ve heard this.
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Max Pemberton is an NHS psychiatrist and a Daily Mail columnist.
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