Legal Question in Criminal Law in Georgia

Back in late January I was pulled over late at night because I did not have my tag light. The police officer found 7 grams of marijuana in a jar and took me to jail. I did a pretrial diversion. Today I had to go to see my probation officer for the first time and she asked me if I had taken any prescription drugs. The night before I was nervous about meeting with her because I thought I would fail the drug test as I am a very heavy smoker, even though I didn't smoke since the court date. I was having panic attacks and could not sleep. I have a bowl of over the counter medications such as ibuprofin, advil, Tylenol things like that. It was mostly different brands of baby aspirins because my dad has heart problems and I take low doses regularly because of panic attacks. I also had a yellow klonopin I took from my brother a long time ago because he has a prescription, I took it in case I was panicking I would have it for emergencies. I was in a very nervous state, my room was dark and I was rummaging around in the bowl trying to find it, I ate what looked like a small, round yellow pill. An hour or 2 later I fell asleep. I told my probation officer the truth that I ate what I thought was a valium or klonopin, but it could have also been a certain brand of baby aspirin because they are the same size pills. She said that I could not do the pre-trial diversion anymore and I had to go back to court to see a judge next month. This is devastating to me, especially when one of the testers told me he didn't think it would have shown up on the drug test, made me so nervous I was there for 2 hours trying to do the test. I just got home and I am freaking out right now... This was my first time in court. What should I do in this situation? I am going to the doctor this week to see if he will prescribe me klonopins or other anti-anxiety pills, oh the irony... Will it make a difference in front of the judge if I get a prescription? What if I did 80 hours of community service instead of 40, or write a letter to him? Or find a job? What will most likely happen t0 me in this situation? I was going to get a public defender to help me with this but am totally lost. I barely have money to pay what the original fees were. I have not told my family...

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