Distressing images have shown the devastating effect drugs had on a woman before her tragic death, after years of substance misuse.
Helen Stobbart struggled for years with drug addiction and mental health issues, before her sad death aged 51 in last May.
Helen's mum Sue Charlesworth has spoken the rapid deterioration of her daughter in the months before she died, as she comes to terms with the shock and heartache of losing her, reports the Mirror.
Sue previously attempted to have Helen sectioned under the Mental Health Act, as she tried anything to try and save her daughter's life.
However, Helen didn't meet the criteria, after being assessed by health professionals, and tragically died just a month later.
Helen grew up in Rawmarsh, South Yorkshire, and her parents split up when she was five. Sue said her daughter had been given whiskey at her dad's house when she was nine.
Sue said: "She had such a lovely personality and she would do anything for anyone, that was part of what made her so vulnerable. She was really trusting and people would take advantage of that.
"Throughout her life, she ended up in a lot of abusive relationships with men but was stuck with them. She'd be beaten up badly but would never say anything, it was always 'oh I fell' or something like that."
As Helen's life spiralled out of control, she would become known to a number of services across her local area, trying to treat her mental health and addiction problems.
Sue said she thought Helen had first started using cannabis in her teens before moving into harder drugs in her 20s. By the end, she was using a lethal mix of heroin, crack cocaine, and methadone.
An inquest at Doncaster Coroners Court on Thursday heard from representatives from support services who had all had contact with Helen in the months before her death.
She remained living in a flat strewn with uncapped needles, and asked the authorities to move her out of the community. She had been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder to bipolar disorder.
Helen was admitted to Rotherham General Hospital due to a suspected overdose on May 21, before she died three days later.
Her cause of death was asphyxiation, due to a cocktail of drugs in her system. Sue said she and Helen had endured a rocky relationship, but she had become increasingly worried about her daughter's appearance in the months before she died.
When she was admitted to hospital, she had a BMI of just 17.6 and a number of serious injuries. Sue believed that if her addiction and mental health struggles had been treated as one - under what is known as a 'dual diagnosis' - she may have met the threshold to be taken into medical detention that April.
However, as it stood, Helen didn't meet the criteria to be admitted for her mental health alone and expressed no desire to be admitted herself.
Area Coroner Mrs Louise Slater was satisfied that the assessment from the multi-agency team did all it could within the scope of the criteria it was working with.
Mrs Slater said: "I accept it must be incredibly difficult to see someone who you love so dearly deteriorate so much and Helen's mum did everything right to try and help her."
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