BBC News
By Owen Amos
image captionLee Butler at Reminisce Festival in St Helens in 2019
When Lee Butler was a cocaine addict, he would start on a Friday night, keep going into Saturday and Sunday, and still be awake on Monday or Tuesday, still snorting, still drinking, still paranoid and weird and wired .
When Lee Butler was a cocaine addict, he would be thrown out of the family house, stumble to his mother s, and take drugs there, too - locked in a bathroom, worried that people were watching, paranoid that police would smash down the door.
When Lee Butler was a cocaine addict, he would finally come down by Wednesday or Thursday, and tell himself - sobbing - that it was the last time, that it was over, but then Friday would come, and just two pints would start the booze-and-coke cycle again.