This story originally aired on March 25, 2018.

Hundreds of Australians die every year, and thousands more are hopelessly addicted. But it's not ice or heroin they're addicted to. Prescription drugs, including superstrong painkillers like oxycodone, have become a huge problem around the world the kind that killed Heath Ledger, and almost destroyed footy hero Matt Cooper. Alex Cullen reports on how Matt was one of the lucky ones, saved at the last moment by his wife and his two little girls.

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