MDMA helped me conquer alcoholism at last
3 May, 2021 10:47 PM
8 minutes to read
WARNING: Distressing content
Dave Pounds can trace his alcohol addiction to a few gruesome hours on the evening of May 12 1976, when his "idyllic, middle England" childhood was thrown into turmoil.
Back then, the 12-year-old spent most of his free time playing cricket or cycling around the fields near his family home in Leicestershire.
His mother, Margaret, who worked in a restaurant, was offered a lift home by a colleague that evening (Pounds' father, a space science professor, was working overnight in Durham). She then invited her co-worker inside for what was supposed to be a quick mug of coffee.