Despite support from his 'doting' parents, 44-year-old John Paul Mack became dependent on heroin which he injected into a badly-infected leg in the privacy of his room, hidden away from his family.
Two vicious assaults turned a man into a nervous and reclusive figure who seldom left the bedroom of his home in Longridge, an inquest was told. And by the time medical help reached him it was too late, assistant coroner Laura Fox heard. He was found collapsed behind his bedroom door in Bowland Close and was 'largely unresponsive.' He suffered two cardiac arrests at the Royal Preston Hospital and was put into an induced coma from which he did not recover.
It was in 2014 that he first admitted to his family that he was addicted to drugs. He was injecting heroin and had scars and ulcers on his leg. Despite several attempts at detox and rehabilitation, prompted by his parents, he always went back to his habit, borrowing large amounts of money to fund the addiction. He became unable to sleep at night and slept instead during the day.
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