At one stage, the former Manchester United and Sunderland midfielder was taking a dozen tablets per night.
Former Man Utd midfielder Darron Gibson bravely opens up on addiction to sleeping pills: 'If I kept going, I'd have died'Darron Gibson has opened up on his addiction to sleeping tablets, revealing that he"would have died" had he kept taking so many.
"I don’t even think I was functioning at that point. Looking back at pictures, I was grey, if I had have kept going I would have died. I was taking 12 to 14 sleeping tablets a night,'' he said. The former Manchester United midfielder also says that he “felt horrendous” for Dele Alli, who opened up about his addiction to sleeping pills in
“Sometimes to take a sleeping tablet to sleep and be ready for the next day is fine, but when your dopamine system and you’re as broken as I am, it can have the reverse effect.
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