“I’m waking up and I’m shivering and I’m cold and I’ve got the sweats.” An Irishman who began taking painkillers for a running injury says he ended up with a codeine addiction so serious he was unable to get out of bed. JoshCrosbie3 reports for Pa...
He said he began taking the tablets after a friend told him they could “give you an extra kick” and help with the pain while running.“I had a lot of injuries from the running that I was ignoring. I just kept on taking the Nurofen and never knew I would get caught until it got to the stage where I was saying to myself, I’m taking a full pack of these a day.Dependency
“After about five years of it, I couldn’t get out of bed anymore,” he said. “I was just getting by, struggling. Josh also spoke to Robbie who said he was seven years clean from drugs when he went into hospital for an operation and was prescribed Tramadol.He found himself going to pharmacies to buy anything that had codeine in it – and eventually, he relapsed back onto other drugs.“I ended up in a hospital, in a wheelchair, soiling myself basically, in the wheelchair.
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