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Painkiller Addict: From wreckage to redemption - my true story By Cathryn Kemp

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Title
Painkiller Addict: From wreckage to redemption - my true story
ISBN
9780749958060
Publication Year
2012
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Book Title
Coming Clean: Diary of a Painkiller Addict
Item Height
233mm
Author
Cathryn Kemp
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Topic
Memorials, Coping with Illness
Item Width
155mm
Item Weight
436g
Number of Pages
320 Pages

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Cathryn Kemp was a successful travel journalist who was struck down by a life-threatening illness. After four years of operations and misdiagnoses she left hospital with a repeat prescription for fentanyl, a painkiller 100 times stronger than heroin. Within two years she was taking more than ten times the NHS maximum, all on prescription. Her family struggled to understand; her boyfriend left her, she hit rock bottom. Discovering she had only six months to live if she didn't give up the drugs she sold everything she owned and checked into rehab. In the treatment centre she was told that she was unlikely to recover from 'the highest level of opiate-abuse in the clinic's history'. To everyone's amazement, she proved them wrong. This is an extraordinarily poignant, vivid and honest memoir. Based on the twenty-four diaries that the author kept during this period, we travel with Cathryn through her hospital agony, descend with her into the hell of addiction and cheer her as she pulls herself out and upwards. It is a love story, a horror story, a survival story and one that shows only too clearly the very real dangers of the over-prescription of painkillers and tranquillisers. There will also be a resource section for sufferers and their loved ones.

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Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN-13
9780749958060
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Book Title
Coming Clean: Diary of a Painkiller Addict
Author
Cathryn Kemp
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Memorials, Coping with Illness
Publication Year
2012
Number of Pages
320 Pages

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Item Height
233mm
Item Width
155mm
Item Weight
436g

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Cathryn Kemp
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United Kingdom

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    I bought this book to try and understand how it is possible to become addicted to drugs supplied by the medical profession. It is a very well written book and exposes many loopholes in the system of medication. How quite this lady survived is nothing short of a miracle and is down to her inner strength. Thoroughly recommended read but it is harrowing. Congratulations to the author.