My Sophie died in pain and was fully incontinent after popular party drug destroyed her life – I begged her to stop

A HEARTBROKEN mum has told of however the fashionable enactment cause "destroyed" her daughter's life, leaving her successful agony and incontinent earlier her tragic decease astatine conscionable 20.

Sophie Russell began taking the Class-B cause ketamine astatine the property of 18 successful 2021 portion retired partying with friends.

Mum Tracy Marelli said the cause usage began pursuing the decease of Sophie's nanna - whom she was precise adjacent to - arsenic a mode to header with the grief.

However, Sophie, who worked arsenic a helper astatine a school's meal and evening club, soon became reliant connected the recreational cause - taking it each time astatine the tallness of her addiction.

The mum-of-two said her girl went from taking the enactment cause with her friends connected nights retired to utilizing ketamine by herself successful her chamber connected a regular basis.

Tracy said she "begged" cause and alcohol services and doctors for assistance - but yet felt "let down by the full system".

The 48-year-old said Sophie was successful "constant pain" and was afloat incontinent astatine the clip of her decease - a side-effect of chronic ketamine useage is that it tin impact the lining of the bladder.

Civil servant Tracy said Sophie wanted to curb her drug-use, but was physically incapable to, admitting that ketamine was rife and precise casual to acquisition via apps connected her phone.

Sophie tragically died connected the greeting of September 26 aft she was recovered unresponsive astatine her dad's house. A origin of decease is yet to beryllium determined.

Lincolnshire Coroner's Court confirmed that the lawsuit is presently nether investigation and the inquest is yet to beryllium opened.

The cause claimed the beingness of Friends Actor Matthew Perry successful 2023.

Now, Tracy wants to pass different young radical to steer wide of this cause aft ketamine "destroyed" her daughter's life.

Tracy, from Lincoln, Lincolnshire, said: "Sophie had conscionable turned 18 erstwhile her nanna passed away. She was precise adjacent to her nanna - and that's wherever it each started with her.

"Around mid-November clip successful 2021 erstwhile she turned 18, she started going retired with her friends and began taking ketamine portion retired partying arsenic a batch of young radical bash unfortunately.

"I wasn't alert that she was taking drugs astatine all.

"The archetypal clip I knew thing was wrong, I kept ringing her up and she was slurring. She couldn't get immoderate of her words out. This was happening rather often.

"I deliberation I recovered retired astir her cause usage erstwhile I recovered pulverization successful her room. I asked her 'why?' and she said it takes her distant from this satellite and it's a happier, amended place.

"I truly don't recognize due to the fact that she was truthful loved and looked aft and however overmuch to look guardant to successful life. I conscionable didn't get it.

"Once I recovered retired astir what was happening, I told her to halt taking it. We had that speech but she intelligibly couldn't.

"She said she recovered herself going retired with her friends, having a bully clip partying, past recovered herself sat successful her room, doing it connected her own.

"She went from having a laughter to taking [it each day] connected her ain successful her bedroom."

Constant agony

Sophie, who had nary underlying health issues, soon began experiencing terrible pain, drastic value loss, and bladder issues - a grounds of chronic usage of the cause owed to the lining of the bladder becoming truthful damaged and scarred that it shrinks.

Tracy said: "She would archer maine astir symptom successful her tummy, she would person blistery h2o bottles constantly. I would instrumentality her to A&E past each of a abrupt it would disappear.

"She was a size 14 erstwhile she was 18, and ended up being a size six erstwhile she passed away. She had mislaid truthful overmuch weight.

"And the doctors didn't look to deliberation determination was thing incorrect with this. She needed to spell to the toilet each the time. She was successful pull-ups for good implicit a year, she was afloat incontinent.

"The magnitude of symptom she was in, the much she took due to the fact that it was the lone happening that would assistance her pain.

"We unrecorded successful a assembly property and she said ketamine was everywhere. I retrieve her saying determination were apps to get it. She could bid it connected her telephone and spell prime it up from somewhere.

"She told maine 1 nighttime that she knew she was going to dice from this but didn't privation to."

Tracy said she sought the assistance of cause and intoxicant services wherever Sophie was placed successful a seven-day detox - but said the attraction 'wasn't enough'.

Tracy said: "We sought assistance for it consecutive away. She wanted to halt but felt she physically couldn't.

"She had cause enactment workers for a bully twelvemonth and a fractional but it conscionable wasn't happening.

"I begged the cause enactment idiosyncratic earlier she died that she needed rehab for 30 days.

"She said ketamine was everywhere, she couldn't get distant from it. I consciousness she was fto down by the full strategy - doctors and cause enactment workers.

"She went to A&E the week earlier she died due to the fact that she was experiencing terrible backmost symptom but she was sent location with antibiotics for a UTI oregon kidney infection.

"She needed hospitalising. I told them she was a ketamine addict but they didn't inquire immoderate questions astir it oregon nexus thing to that."

The time earlier her death, Sophie went to her dad's location adjacent for a bath to assistance alleviate her symptom but didn't aftermath up the pursuing morning.

The household are inactive awaiting the toxicology results to find the origin of Sophie's death.

Tracy said: "I screamed and fell to the floor. This cause destroyed her. We loved each different large clip but I was ever disquieted astir her.

"I get the young privation to experimentation but not with this drug. It should beryllium a class-A drug. I would accidental to different radical conscionable don't bash it, it's not worthy the risk.

"There's a batch of radical successful the aforesaid presumption arsenic me. This satellite has gone brainsick astatine the minute.

"There's an atrocious batch of radical connected drugs now, radical you don't adjacent deliberation about. I don't recognize it."

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust was contacted for comment.

Sophie's friends precocious took connected the Yorkshire three-peak situation to rise money for the 'Taking Action connected Addiction Campaign'.

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