Article: All the President's pills; WHAT JFK TOOK IN AVERAGE DAY TO STAY ALIVE Codeine, Demerol, methadone, Meprobamate, Librium, thyroid hormones, barbiturates, gamma globulin, antispasmodics, antibiotics, hydrocortisone, testosterone, salt tablets, Ritalin and procaine.(News)

Byline: RICHARD WALLACE US Editor in New York

JOHN F Kennedy took an extraordinary cocktail of up to eight different drugs a day to combat chronic ill-health.

He needed painkillers, anti-anxiety tablets, stimulants and sleeping pills as well as hormones to keep him alive - and used huge extra doses in times of stress.

The US president, assassinated in Dallas, Texas, in November 1963, was ...

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