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Health: the dangers of addiction to pain medication
Health: the dangers of addiction to pain medication
(franceinfo)
In a book, Diane Wattrelos describes her dependence on pain medication. A little-known addiction, from which she is now cured. Other medications without the risk of addiction exist.
When Diane Wattrelos opened her medicine cabinet every morning, she did not imagine that she was in danger. “I put my Tramadol next to my paracetamol“, she remembers. This opium derivative was prescribed to this 33-year-old woman for facial pain caused by a neurological disease. She then became dependent and the withdrawal attacks increased. A year ago , a neurologist puts the words on her addiction The family is shaken.
In France, Tramadol is prescribed to 6 million people each year. In 2022, seven deaths occurred from overdose and 116 serious cases from poisoning. Taken during pregnancy, it caused Capucine, Diane’s daughter, a “withdrawal syndrome“, disappeared in a few days. Diane Wattrelos recounts the taboo of addiction in a book. On social networks, she interacts with hundreds of people in her case. Treated in an addiction center, Diane has since been freed three months of Tramadol She treats her pain with other medications, without risk of addiction.
