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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Catherine Lough

Teachers forced to ‘pop pills’ over excess workload, union told

PA Wire

Teachers have been forced to pop pills to cope with increasing workload, a teachers’ union has been told on Saturday.

Member Owain Morgan-Lee told the Nasuwt teaching union’s annual conference in Birmingham that many colleagues had been signed off as “long-term sick, because they’re popping pills to try to cheer themselves up because the job is dragging them down to a point where their health is in a serious, serious, condition”.

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