Ex-footballer Ryan Cresswell admits pressure drove him to abusing prescription drugs as he says Dele Alli isn't alone
Cresswell also played for Essex club Southend United, where he was a runner-up in the Football League Trophy“For me, it was painkillers and sleeping tablets that I became reliant on early on, which then also led me into drink and other things, which took me into rehab.
“I threw my body on the line - I shattered my collarbone, I got prolapsed discs in my neck, I had four knee surgeries, all through impacts from playing. And then when someone is giving you a stick saying, ‘He’s never fit and he’s unreliable’, I tried to make sure that I didn't feel the pain that I was going through, to make sure I got on the pitch at all costs. In the long run, that ended up affecting me.
“I think that you take them for the right purpose when the club give them to you, but then when you feel the numbness and the escapism of what a sleeping tablet does to you, it's quite easy for a footballer to fall into an addiction with them.
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