Painkiller Addict: From Wreckage to Redemption - My True Story

by Cathryn Kemp

WINNER OF THE BIG RED READ PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION IN 2013.

Cathryn Kemp was a successful travel journalist who was struck down by a life-threatening illness, pancreatitis. After four years of operations and mis-diagnoses 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;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0749958065
• ISBN13: 9780749958060
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Sphere
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.