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Sarah Hiscox Reveals Doctor Prescribed Mogadon to Her at Age 8
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We Saved Each Other From Addiction | Sarah Hiscox “I Wouldn’t Be Alive Without You”
What was said
"My mum took me to the local doctor and he gave me Mogadon. I wasn't aware until I started writing the book. It didn't really occur to me. But I mean, you know, it's one thing to give a grown woman something like that, but an 8-year-old child— Mogadon was what, a downer? It's a very powerful sleeping pill, right? You know, prescription-only sleeping pill. Yeah, that is not available anymore. Probably because it's so addictive and powerful."
Sarah Hiscox disclosed that at age 8, suffering from nightmares, her mother took her to a doctor who prescribed Mogadon, a highly addictive prescription sleeping pill. She was given it for two weeks and says she didn't fully realize how abnormal this was until writing her memoir. The drug is no longer available due to its addictive properties and is now understood to cause dependency within days.
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- Programme
- Begin Again with Davina McCall
- Episode
- We Saved Each Other From Addiction | Sarah Hiscox “I Wouldn’t Be Alive Without You”
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- 7:17
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