{"id":25132,"date":"2025-01-23T20:15:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T20:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emmerdale-insider.com\/?p=25132"},"modified":"2025-01-23T16:27:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T16:27:29","slug":"whats-really-wrong-with-joe-in-emmerdale-painkiller-addiction-a-blatant-cover-up-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tvguide.co.uk\/emmerdale-insider\/news\/whats-really-wrong-with-joe-in-emmerdale-painkiller-addiction-a-blatant-cover-up-opinion\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s really wrong with Joe in Emmerdale? Painkiller addiction a blatant cover-up – OPINION"},"content":{"rendered":"

He\u2019s been covering something up for a while now, but tonight\u2019s episode of Emmerdale seemed to confirm that there\u2019s something seriously wrong with Joe Tate<\/a>\u2026 but is it the painkiller addiction? As he continued to struggle with an apparent addiction to pills, Dawn found him passed out in his car<\/a>.<\/p>

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Confronting him with the bottle of pills she found at his side, Dawn demanded answers. And Joe was in a state, clearly in no fit state to drive home. But is the painkiller addiction Joe\u2019s real addiction? We think not, and a later phone call seemed to confirm that he\u2019s hiding something else.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s wrong with Joe?<\/p>\n

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Joe\u2019s sick in Emmerdale \u2013 and it\u2019s not the painkiller problem<\/h2>\n

Sobered up, he made his excuses to Dawn<\/a>, telling her that he was ashamed, but ultimately getting help for his painkiller addiction. He then snuck off, alone, into a secluded room where he made a furtive phone call.<\/p>\n

\u201cHey\u2026 we\u2019ve got a problem,\u201d he said to the mystery figure on the other end of the line.<\/p>

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