I drank a bottle of wine per night and struggled to hide my humiliating secret. Then doctors treated me with big doses of a medicine that nobody will guess … Now I am teetotaal

The slide in addiction and despair was frightening. It all started when father-of-one Grant Smith* was confronted with redundancy his job in the management of music events, and then lost his mother within a few months. The 58-year-old from Somerset started to drink hard, first looking for something to numb the accident he felt. Soon […]

NHS opens the very first ketamine clinic for children – children as young as 12 left in the hospital admitted by toxic effects of party drug

The NHS has launched the very first Ketamine Teen-addiction clinic of the UK, amid an increase in young people who are addicted to the spiritual drug. Doctors in Alder Hay Children’s Hospital in Liverpool opened the service last month after seeing ‘increasing numbers’ children who attended A&E, including such a young as 12. According to […]