“A doctor gave them to me after the accident. Five years later I was buying them off a lad in a car park.”
A doctor gave me painkillers and Xanax after a car accident. They worked. Then they stopped working and I needed more. Five years later I was buying street benzos off a lad in a Tesco car park.
Street tablets are not what they say they are. One night I took two and woke up in University Hospital Galway with no memory of the day before.
Coming off benzos nearly killed me.
Coming off benzos nearly killed me. You can't just stop. I had a seizure trying. It took fourteen months of slow tapering with a proper GP who didn't treat me like a criminal.
I still take something for the pain. It's managed, written down, my husband holds the box. I can't say I'm sober. I can say I'm in control for the first time in years.
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