16 h. ago Sir Bradley Wiggins reveals disgraced cycling icon Lance Armstrong's role as his 'inspiration' in helping him through cocaine addiction and bankruptcy

Five-time Olympic gold medalist Sir Bradley Wiggins has expressed his gratitude to disgraced former cyclist Lance Armstrong for helping him get through dark times.

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18 h. ago Bradley Wiggins brands Lance Armstrong a ‘great inspiration’ in drug addiction battle

The 2012 Tour de France winner paid tribute to Armstrong, who was stripped of his cycling titles for using performance-enhancing drugs

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18 h. ago Sir Bradley Wiggins calls cycling drugs cheat Lance Armstrong an 'inspiration'

Lance Armstrong became a disgraced figure in cycling after admitting that he used performance-enhancing drugs during all seven of his famous Tour de France victories

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19 h. ago Sir Bradley Wiggins thanks ‘great inspiration’ Lance Armstrong for help in battling drug addiction

Armstrong, stripped of his cycling titles for using performance-enhancing drugs, has helped Wiggins deal with his cocaine addiction

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50 h. ago Barney took ketamine aged 16 to celebrate the end of GCSEs. A year later he was addicted. At 21 he was dead. Now his despairing mother reveals the true horror of drug so many are taking

When Deborah Casserly's son Barney started primary school, she and several other mums set up a book club.

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66 h. ago Good Samaritan had two teeth knocked out by drug addict he'd tried to help

Scott Kilbride, 30, lashed out when he was caught stealing the man's bank card.

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6 d. ago Soaring numbers of Brits hooked on painkillers fuelled by online cowboys

Statistics from a support group show the number of prescription drug addicts in the UK has doubled in the past five years with a Sunday Mirror investigation finding pills are cheap and easy to come by

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7 d. ago Mountainhead to See How They Run: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Jesse Armstrong’s hilariously awkward tech bro satire sees Steve Carell and Jason Schwartzman plot world domination, while a starry, Agatha Christie-inspired whodunnit is tons of funIn Jesse Armstrong’s squirmingly funny satire, four tech moguls gather at a retreat called Mountainhead (a wry nod to Ayn Rand’s paean to individualism The Fountainhead). When the launch of a deep-fake tool by Cory Michael Smith’s billionaire Venis plunges the world into financial and social meltdown, he and his alpha male peers – Jeff (Ramy Youssef), Randall (Steve Carell) and their host Souper (Jason Schwartzman) – insouciantly ponder exploiting this “moment of creative destruction” and taking over the world. As in Succession, Armstrong has a keen eye for the supercilious world of the super-rich, where people are expendable and petty grievances can be dressed up as utopianism. Sunday 1 June, 9pm, Sky Atlantic Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Drug dealer apologises for the 'demons' he is causing addicts

Jake Tipping's barrister said his client fell in with the "wrong crowd" after moving to Swansea

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1 week ago Glasgow City Council denies drug consumption room has created a 'war zone' in local neighbourhood

Some residents in the east end of Glasgow have warned the streets around The Thistle have become "a toilet" due to rubbish dumped by drug addicts.

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1 week ago East London gangsters sent drug addict into police station in hopeless ruse to get Nokia burner phone back

East London gangsters sent drug addict into police station in hopeless ruse to get Nokia burner phone back  MyLondon

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2 w. ago Former meth addict grandmother who spent 15 years on the drug reveals her shocking transformation after getting clean

Shannon Hughes, 46, from Springfield, Missouri, who spent 15 years on meth now looks unrecognisable after finally getting clean. A doctor said she was in the 'final stages' of addiction and would likely die

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2 w. ago Drug dealers GUILTY of murder after addict tried to ‘tax’ them

Jordan Downs and Paul Simmons will be sentenced later this year

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2 w. ago Ex TUI flight attendant facing jail after ‘trying to smuggle £1.2m drugs'

Charlotte May Lee was arrested in Sri Lanka after allegedly smuggling the highly addictive drug kush.

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2 w. ago Inside airport's 'homeless city': How terminals used by thousands of Brits every year have been taken over by drug addicts and rough sleepers

The 'occupants' are seen sleeping on every level of the terminal and in any spot they can find, including next to toilet entrances, behind the flight display screens and at restaurant tables.

Society

3 w. ago Alana ‘Honey Boo Boo’ Thompson recalls being ‘so scared’ she’d find Mama June dead during her drug addiction spiral

Thompson narrates a new Lifetime biopic about her life, called ‘I was Honey Boo Boo’, debuting Saturday on Lifetime

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3 w. ago I was on the roof smoking weed as my baby girl fought for her life in hospital

Lying motionless in a hospital bed, surrounded by beeping machines attached by wires to her tiny body, my four-month-old daughter was fighting for her life.

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3 w. ago Ketamine addict who spent £300,000 on drug 'has to pee every minute' and 'wakes up soaked'

Oliver Westall says he was first introduced to the drug, which made him feel 'warm and numb inside', as a child - but his addiction quickly spiralled out of control

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3 w. ago Bradley Wiggins admits son feared his cocaine addiction would kill cycling legend

Cycling legend Sir Bradley Wiggins was addicted to cocaine for many years following his retirement from the sport in 2016 and has sought help from infamous cheat Lance Armstrong

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3 w. ago Bradley Wiggins' drug addiction had son fearing his death as he was 'high most of the time'

Sir Bradley Wiggins is one of the greatest Olympians in British history, but the cycling legend endured a difficult period where he was battling an addiction to drugs

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