Slimming Hazard
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to resort to trickery to get repeat prescriptions, but it wasn't too difficult, and as I had no underworld contacts, I had to get my supply In due course my mental and physical health deteriorated and I was forced to tell my tale of woe to my doctor, who calmly scrawled another prescription for Duraphet instead. After four months in a mental hospital 1 was freed of my hell. That was two years ago and I wish I could say that all is well. I have since been a patient again and still attend the psychiatric clinic for treatment of anxiety and depression. I can't help wondering am I justified in blaming amphetamine addiction as a contributory factor. Four other persons, known to me, have had similar experiences and they are not teenagers either, but
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