A cocaine addict hooked on the drug for 25 years has shared graphic images of the impact the illegal drug had on his body.
Ian Higginson, from Wythenshawe near Manchester, spent almost £400-a-week on the drug, after becoming addicted in his late teens.
The 44-year-old said the years of abuse 'destroyed' his nose and caused 'lumps of flesh' to fall off.
Though, Mr Higginson has now been clean for almost a year. He opened up about his addiction in a Facebook post.
Ian Higginson, from Wythenshawe near Manchester, spent almost £400-a-week on the drug, after becoming addicted in his late teens (pictured left, his nose during his habit, and right, four months clean)
He wrote: 'Cocaine has done me absolutely no favours at all... it's only once you stop that you see it for yourself.'
Mr Higginson revealed how he became a slave to the drug, putting it before friends, family - and even himself.
'My addiction started properly when I moved down south,' he told The Manchester Evening News.
He became an air steward and often flew long haul to the Caribbean, where he said cocaine was 'everywhere'.
Mr Higginson revealed that is when his addiction started to consume him. He described himself as being a 'complete slave to it'.
He added: 'When I was in the UK, I'd spend my days off working the doors as a bouncer, earning more cash, taking cocaine while working to keep me awake.
'I was spending three, four hundred pounds a week on it, easy, sometimes even £1,000.
'I'd set up a few businesses which were successful, but all the money from them went on drugs.
Mr Higginson has now been clean for almost a year. He opened up about his addiction in a Facebook post (pictured with his girlfriend Emma)
'When my mum died she left me her house, it was worth £160k - I spent at least half of that cash on cocaine.'
After five-and-a-half years, Mr Higginson changed careers and took a job in an office. But the drugs didn't stop.
'I was a functional user,' he added. 'I'd go to work every day as normal and then I'd come home and sniff cocaine. It just became the norm.
'As my financial situation improved, the more coke I'd buy. Things got out of control and I couldn't stop.'
Mr Higginson's addiction to cocaine saw him hospitalised in 2016. He said: 'When I blew my nose lumps of flesh would come out.
'I was disgusting. The pain was so bad,
