Although headache treatment often involves taking pain pills, this type of relief carries with it the risk of side effects, rebound headaches (headaches brought on by taking too much medication), and addiction (like opioids, or narcotics). Some headache medication also has limited use for pregnant women and children.
Guy Burgess was, at various times and often simultaneously, a radio producer for the BBC, an informer for MI5, a propagandist for MI6 and a spy for the KGB, writes Stewart Purvis.
The lonely exile who drank himself to death: New biography reveals Cambridge spy spent his final days stuck in a drab Moscow flat, pining for Britain. Life deteriorated for British defector Guy Burgess after his arrival in Russia. It was only after he publicly revealed his location did he live in Moscow. He began drinking and smoking too much, and starting longing for Britain. Burgess died lonely and depressed in 1963 due to acute liver failure.