{"id":305781,"date":"2025-12-08T21:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T21:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/305781\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T21:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T21:56:07","slug":"man-recovering-from-over-the-counter-drug-addiction-urges-others-to-get-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/305781\/","title":{"rendered":"Man recovering from over-the-counter drug addiction urges others to get help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was the norm for me to be in and out of hospital all the time,&#8221; Mr Main told BBC News NI. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I sort of put it to the back of my mind and at that point I was only using the medication to function to get through my day.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he suffered from, &#8220;loss of weight, loss of appetite, no real drive and no real up and go&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Main admitted he kept what was happening a secret from most people in his life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I split up with my partner, she was the only one that really knew at the time, she tried to help as much as she could&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His addiction also affected his career, &#8220;I maybe missed work for a month or two, I would take a lot of days of sick so I would&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;It was the norm for me to be in and out of hospital all the time,&#8221; Mr Main&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-305781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}