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Nonetheless, that is what she was - in the grip of what could be dubbed the 'silent addiction', one played out not in seedy crack dens but in cul-de-sacs and avenues across Britain. Slim, blonde, smartly dressed, with a loving husband and two sons aged eight and six, she works for a firm of solicitors and lives in a picturesque Hertfordshire village.
Marianne doesn't look like a drug addict. That her drug of choice could be bought over the counter had not only facilitated her habit, but also allowed her to be in denial for many months. The legal secretary was in the grip of addiction, one that lasted three years and needed at its height 'feeding' with between 48 and 60 tablets a day. 'I kept telling myself that I'd sort it out soon.' In common with many drug addicts, Marianne said this week that while she knew it 'wasn't normal', she couldn't help herself. There, in a perfectly ordinary transaction costing under £5, she bought a 32-pill pack of painkillers, gulping down six in one go. Making her excuses, 39-year-old Marianne drove 'in a blind panic' not, as one might suspect, to her drug dealer, but to an out-of-town supermarket, where she could get what she needed. The pounding headache and dull ache in the small of her back were already taking hold, as well as a shakiness in her legs.
None of the friends she was lunching with that day could have even imagined Marianne James's sense of dread as she stared into her handbag and realised she'd run out of her 'fix'. The fact that painkillers can be bought over the counter means addicts can be in denial for many months
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