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Off-screen she battled a heroin addiction for 20 years, an inquest at Poplar Coroner's Court was told.The actress's first major role was in Ken Loach's Family Life in 1971, in which she played a schizophrenic teenager. The inquest heard Ratcliff had been discharged from hospital the day before she died and given morphine for pain relief.
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So sad to hear - drugs are the scourge of society you only have to walk down your street as teens walk past 🚬 weed with that pungent odour of cats piss not knowing the long term effect of causing a chemical imbalance within their brains 🧠 will ruin their lives forever !
Truly sad - a troubled soul 😥
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