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Mum given just 24 hours to live after drinking three litres of vodka a day
02.07.2023 - 04:45 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A mum who was drinking three litres of vodka a day was warned she had just one day to live at the height of her addiction.
Charlotte Durcan, 30, from Lancashire, says she was a teetotal three years before her addiction reached its peak, reports the Manchester Evening News..
But the self-confessed 'extremist', had spiralled out of control within 36 months and was in danger of losing her life due to the volume of alcohol she was consuming.
She was suffering from seizures and blackouts, and without vodka her body would start shaking and sweating.
When Charlotte suddenly realised that she couldn't manage without a drink that she knew the drinking had become a serious addiction.
The mum-of-two said: "In the mornings, I would have to have a drink, just to level me out.
"It would be vodka and that would be a pint of vodka neat. That would be literally to stop me from shaking and stop me from being too sick and sweating - that'd work.
"From there, it would just carry on throughout the day, but obviously, when money went tight and things, I would try and get family to get me drink. I was using all my money up on drink, so they'd sometimes only be able to get me bottles of wine and things.
"Then I started to realise it was a problem, when I could have a full bottle of wine and it wouldn't affect me."
Charlotte says only when drinking vodka would she feel the affects but after one black out, she visited the hospital for the first time.
She was kept in for a few days and eventually returned home, but despite going four days without drinking she "went straight back to the drink" upon her return and ended up back in hospital again.
This circle of events repeated itself around three or four times before the situation became grave.
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