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I can't imagine experiencing the nightmare of forced opioid withdrawal. You're not

just seeing you get cold and then hot and you're sweaty but you're cold. You feel like there's bugs

crawling on you. It's like you can't even describe it. It's worse than death

itself. For John Nut on Amanda Karoty, their surroundings make the agony worse.

They're locked up in solitary confinement. Small, cold, hard cells. God knows where.

The suffering blends together with utter confusion or really delusion. Since the

failed terror attack, they've been grasping, trying to understand what's

happening to them. I thought I was in an alkyd a bunker and it was all a test to

see if I would rat. And the fact that we weren't in Guantanamo Bay getting

water-borted told me that this is part of it, right? So just keep playing along,

keep playing along. Amanda also suspects she's being held captive by alkyda.

It's a few days before she's given a big enough dose of methadone to keep the

opioid withdrawal at bay. For John, it lasts weeks. He's too enraged at his

captors to accept any help. As they stew in jail, the public is quickly

learning who they are and what they're accused of doing.

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