![]() In a Hack broadcast exclusive, rapper 360, born Matt Colwell, has described the lows of his secret addiction and his battle to finally shake the drugs and get clean. ![]() And then he was using heroin when he ran out of legal drugs.įriends knew about the heroin Nurofen Plus was the secret. He was taking the legal drugs so he could travel through airports without heroin. He was addicted to codeine, an opiate derived from morphine, present in drugs such as Nurofen Plus. Actually he had been taking 90 painkillers a day for every day of the tour. He was not trying to kill himself, he said later in hospital. Hours before his Byron Bay set 360 had taken 120 pills, passed out, and been found convulsing on the floor. ![]() I should definitely be dead," he says looking back now, gym buffed and one year sober, in triple j's Melbourne studio. He was part-way through a 16-date tour of regional Australia, travelling the country with a half-suitcase of clothes and a half-suitcase of painkiller medication. Rapper 360's slow, tentative recovery from addiction began on the floor of the Great Northern Hotel, Byron Bay.
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