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it was very smiley it was very very
intelligent when she met him you just
stand up with him straight away that's
what I always like to say to people I
was so proud of him I was so proud to
exist there
this is Logan wooliscroft toasting a
marshmallow and then giving it to his
little sister his family say for a few
months last summer this kind and
thoughtful Logan disappeared but on the
morning of the 21st of August he was
back I was sat just doing the makeup
and as I left he told me that he loved
me and I can't remember the last time
that he told me that he loved me and I
never said it back to him
well not back to remember but I remember
turning around and he used to do a
little wave he stood up with his hand
and he did that to me and I just like
that by he said I'm proud of you and I
said yeah I'm proud of you too and he
said no dad listen to me I'm proud of
you I want you to know I'm proud of you
a few hours later Steve found out Logan
had gone to a cliff near their home
Steve went to find him I found eight
grams empty bags cocaine bags dish rano
he poured that to some Pepsi the police
asked me where I thought he was and I
just knew that he'd gone over so I came
home and at to tell Tilly the brother
had died
which broke hot cocaine was once only
for the rich but now it's affordable and
accessible recent home office figures
show last year the numbers of people
taking Class A drugs in England and
Wales reached record levels mainly due
to young adults academics and doctors
say these are some of the reasons
there's been a rise in the number of
alcohol and cocaine related deaths over
the past two decades 162 people died in
England and Wales last year a leading
pathologist has called the mixture of
alcohol and cocaine a deadly combination
there of course the health risks
increased heart rate and increased blood
pressure there's also the chance of
increased risky or dangerous behavior
research from the u.s. suggests it could
also increase the chance of suicide by
16 times
alcohol and cocaine are very different
pharmacologically alcohol is a
depressant it tends to kind of increase
the levels of gaba in the brain which is
like the brain's handbrake and and it's
the thing that makes it an angle it ik
it makes us feel less anxious you add
cocaine into that mix and what you have
is almost like a rocket fueled kind of
increasing in impulsivity which really
perhaps gives people the driver to to
complete an act that they may not
otherwise do if it's like crossing the
road in front of a car speeding towards
you you make those kind of decisions the
victoria derbyshire program has found to
have recently been at least 13
self-inflicted deaths after alcohol and
cocaine were taken the majority of them
were hangings this includes the love
island contestants mike felicitous and
sophie graden also Sophie's boyfriend
Aaron Armstrong who took his own life
just weeks after her the trouble that we
and academics have found is there's
currently no standardized statistics for
these type of deaths after consulting
experts we found these figures by
searching through local and national
media articles it's thought the number
of deaths could be even higher we've
been told the way coroner's record their
conclusions could be obscuring emerging
trends in difficult cases in the inquest
we found where the deceased hang
themselves a conclusion of suicide
wasn't always recorded narrative or open
conclusions were instead at one inquest
where a man hanged himself after taking
alcohol and cocaine the coroner recorded
a narrative verdict saying the deceased
took his own life while the balance of
his mind was disturbed
it's unfortunate we're having more and
more deaths of this nature the Ministry
of Justice says while coroner's
contribute to death statistics it's not
their legal function
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along with the 13 deaths we found there
were five more where cocaine and alcohol
were consumed and suicide considered the
coroner's concluded there wasn't enough
evidence one of those was Logan in the
three months before his death
Logan became increasingly volatile and
pressed the 21 year olds family say he'd
made some new friends and had started
taking cocaine and drinking heavily he
left some notes for his family but the
coroner said Logan could have fallen
while intoxicated an open conclusion was
recorded do you think alcohol and
cocaine killed Logan
yes wonder-percent to mix stimulant with
depressant which is what you do in it
muggles you bring it up completely and
you just don't know where you are some
with mental health problems may take
cocaine and drink to self-medicate for
others the mixture can cause mental
health issues at the age of 30
Paula Reese was battling alcoholism she
began taking cocaine to curb her
drinking
I couldn't have one line I could never
have one drink you know and together and
together created that boom the bomb in
my mind there was a sense of paranoia it
was a point where I used to feel that
was being recorded wherever I was so I
know I was going a bit crazy but a
student put you down to the Jobson drink
I just thought this may go mad and I
used to unplug all the electrical
equipment with green lights because I
was convinced that was cameras I just
took my ear to the floor because I
thought people were underground
Paulette tried to take her own life on
two occasions those two drugs took me
away from innocence in responsibility a
sense of reality
I didn't think of any consequences in
fact I didn't care
Paula is now clean and works for
recovery lighthouse it's part of the you
can't group of rehabs which have seen
alcohol and cocaine admissions double in
four years when you mix alcohol and
cocaine together the liver produces a
substance called coke ethylene
it's thought this can lead to reckless
behavior violent thoughts and the
increased risk of suicide
however the Royal College of
Psychiatrists says other factors like a
person's genes and their environments
will also come into play and that more
research is needed we've had 28 percent
funding cuts in the last five years at
the same time as we have this increasing
in usage which seems really inexplicable
to those of us working in the field but
our biggest concern obviously is the
impact on on the individual and their
families because people often get into
the habitual use of alcohol and then
they add cocaine into that and it
becomes a very toxic mix the Department
of Health says it's investing millions
into suicide prevention has commissioned
an independent review of drugs and is
setting up alcohol care teams in some
hospitals you can see the cliff where
Logan died from the Willis Crofts garden
Logan's cats occasionally meows when you
say Logan's name when the family need an
escape they go to the garage where they
keep Logan's car pretty much everything
is revolved around Logan the Willis
crafts are now raising money to support
mental health and suicide awareness
services in the Matlock area
they recently did a five-day grueling
coast-to-coast bike ride
cycling nearly 200 miles it's kind of a
escapism for me and listening to Logan's
playlist and you know I'd just pretend
he's with me behind me or something he
was just lovely and I think to think of
something like this changing someone in
such a drastic way like a boy who had
everything like it just shows what it
really can do to you
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