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Coming Clean - Cathryn Kemp

Coming Clean

Diary of a Painkiller Addict

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Buch | Softcover
320 Seiten
2017
Piatkus Books (Verlag)
978-0-7499-5807-7 (ISBN)
CHF 22,90 inkl. MwSt
A heart-rending memoir that lifts the lid on the issue painkiller addiction, showing the price one woman paid and her fight to recover
'A brave, heartfelt and extraordinary book' Corinne Sweet, author of Overcoming Addiction, psychologist and broadcaster

What if the drugs that were meant to cure you slowly started to kill you?

After falling dangerously ill with acute-on-chronic pancreatitis, Cathryn Kemp left hospital with a repeat prescription for fentanyl, a painkiller 100 times stronger than heroin.

Within two years she was taking almost ten times the NHS maximum daily dose - all on prescription - and her life began to spiral out of control. Cathryn discovered she had just three months to live, unless she gave up the drug she clung to so desperately.

After selling everything she owned and checking into rehab, Cathryn was told by the doctors that recovery was highly unlikely. Yet to everyone's amazement, she proved them wrong.

Coming Clean is a poignant, vivid and honest memoir of a woman's struggle with, and subsequent victory over, her demons. It is a love story, a horror story, a survival story, and one that shows the very real dangers of the over-prescription of painkillers.

Cathryn Kemp is a journalist and travel writer. She was a journalist for The People, News of the World, The Sunday Mirror and the Mirror for seven years before falling ill literally overnight in 2004. She has written several Lonely Planet books, including Romania and Moldov;, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania; Eastern Europe, and Europe on a Shoestring.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 128 x 198 mm
Gewicht 260 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Sucht / Drogen
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Suchtkrankheiten
Medizin / Pharmazie Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie Rehabilitation
ISBN-10 0-7499-5807-3 / 0749958073
ISBN-13 978-0-7499-5807-7 / 9780749958077
Zustand Neuware
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