{"id":150322,"date":"2025-11-24T13:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T13:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/150322\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T13:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T13:52:11","slug":"blackpool-man-runs-for-24-hours-to-highlight-mens-mental-health-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/150322\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackpool man runs for 24 hours to highlight men&#8217;s mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It follows his 2023 feat, a near 250 mile (400km) pier to pier run from Blackpool to Brighton, which raised \u00a32,500 for Movember.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m just wanting to raise awareness and make a change,&#8221; he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m002m87t\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Radio Lancashire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was important for me to do it in Blackpool as it&#8217;s my hometown,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Blackpool also has the highest rate of deaths linked to alcohol, drug abuse and suicide in England, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-68435667\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a recent study found<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The town is plagued by fatalities linked to alcohol, drug abuse and suicide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A study of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0277953624000042?via%3Dihub\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">deaths recorded at coroners&#8217; courts across England, external<\/a>, suggests that between 2019 and 2021, about 46,200 people lost their lives in this way &#8211; the equivalent of 42 people every day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And research suggests Blackpool has the highest rate of these deaths with a rate of 83.8 for every 100,000 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It follows his 2023 feat, a near 250 mile (400km) pier to pier run from Blackpool to Brighton,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[163,85,46,522,523],"class_list":{"0":"post-150322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}