Coming Clean: Diary of a Painkiller Addict

By Cathryn Kemp

A heart-rending memoir that lifts the lid on the issue of painkiller addiction, showing the price one woman paid and her fight to recover.

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 the 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0749958073
• ISBN13: 9780749958077
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Piatkus
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.9" x 7.7"