The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen by Hendrik Groen

Author:Hendrik Groen [Groen, Hendrik]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Humour, Contemporary, Adult
ISBN: 9781455542178
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Amazon: 1455542172
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Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2017-07-11T06:00:00+00:00

Monday, June 10

Yesterday was the kind of day when you doze off four times over the newspaper or in front of the TV, then stay up tossing and turning half the night. I first tried a glass of warm milk and honey, then swallowed two sleeping pills.

According to addiction experts, I am one of the 930,000 Dutch over-fifty-fives who resort to a pill when sleep won’t come on its own. It seems old-age homes are teeming with junkies. They’re addicted to sleeping pills containing benzodiazepines. Huh? Yes, benzodiazepines. They also help assuage anxiety and fretting. But they come with a dangerous side effect: you might break a hip. In the Netherlands alone they’ve caused over a thousand broken hips, by the experts’ estimate—elderly folks who wake up in the middle of the night in an extra-doddering state, stagger to the bathroom and take a fall. Crack.

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