The former Liverpool player admitted to drug addiction while playing for the club

Former English goalkeeper Chris Kirkland almost died due to the use of illegal substances.

Former Liverpool and England goalkeeper Chris Kirkland has admitted he suffered from drug addiction during his playing career.

Kirkland said he was taking the equivalent of six heroin shots a day for several years.

“When I went to rehab, I found out I was getting the equivalent of six hits of heroin a day.

It’s a bad, bad drug. He almost killed me, but he should have.

At first it causes a pleasant sensation. It makes you happy if you have anxiety or anything like that.

Yes, I used it for pain, but mostly for anxiety. But it destroys the mind. After three months, I realized that I had problems, that I had become dependent on him.

Eventually you develop a tolerance to it that nothing helps. The body only needs it because you’re an addict.

I thought I would never get addicted.

I was strong enough to only take them when I needed them, but this took over me, my body demanded more and more of them, and I became dependent on them.

The first year was easy. For the second year I was taking tramadol every day, more or less often. Lyona (Kirkland’s wife) doesn’t know.

Chris also talked about how the first few days passed after he stopped this drug.

I wouldn’t wish these seven or eight days on anyone. I had hallucinations, constant sweating, colds, vomiting, pains and spasms all over my body.

I’m up for five or six days, usually. Liona was sleeping in the next room because I was tossing and turning, and she came to check how I was breathing,” Kirkland was quoted as saying by goal.com.

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