FRUITLAND PARK, Fla. -- The registered nurse who police say wrote fake painkiller prescriptions for herself and her friends has bonded out of jail. Police say 35-year-old Marie Free nearly overdosed before her 7-year-old son found her and called for help.

Free allegedly stole the blank pharmacy pads that doctors use to write legitimate prescriptions. In her case, the drugs weren't legitimate and might have killed her right in front of her own son.

Fruitland Park police said Free would write herself and her friends phony prescriptions, mostly for the powerful painkiller hydrocodone. They said she used a house in Fruitland Park as her personal drug den, allowing it to become so squalid that it was unsafe for her own children.

Police were called to the home Sunday night after Free's 7-year-old son found his mother banging her head against the counter. Officials said she and two other men could've died, because they had so many drugs in their system.

The gastroenterologist office where Free worked has changed its policy and is now keeping the paper pads for drug prescriptions locked up.

Free bonded out of jail on $35,000 Monday night. She faces a litany of charges, eight counts for illegally obtaining the drugs, eight more for illegally possessing them. She also faces child neglect charges because of the condition of the home.