{"id":29267,"date":"2017-08-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/scotty-hodges-talks-about-his-slide-into-drugs-during-playing-days\/"},"modified":"2017-08-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T00:00:00","slug":"scotty-hodges-talks-about-his-slide-into-drugs-during-playing-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/scotty-hodges-talks-about-his-slide-into-drugs-during-playing-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotty Hodges Talks About His Slide Into Drugs During Playing Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Scott Hodges says he lost his way while injured on the Power list in 1997.<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThat was another one of those frustrating moments. They told me that I was finished for the year with the back problems that I had,\u201d Hodges told the FIVEAA sports show on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just thought, I can\u2019t take a trick, so unfortunately I did look to other means and illicit drugs\u2026 it made me forget about a lot of things. It made me feel better when I was down and out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving a line of that would pick me right up and I would feel on top of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>LISTEN:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/335612624&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scotty also admitted he was disrupted by neighbours when he travelled to a family shack in Walker Flat with plans to take his own life.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThat day I remember things had just come to an end with Julie. And I just thought, \u2018That\u2019s it, I\u2019ve had enough.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was fortunate enough that those people were there because coming in and out seeing them there it sort of stopped me from going down to that jetty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter a while I just drank and drank and drank and I had a heap of pills there. I took them and hoped I wasn\u2019t going to wake up.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Hodges\u2019 book \u2018Not All Black And White\u2019 is out now.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/Jay-Weatherill-Says-It-s-Time-To-Make-A-HUGE-Change\"><strong>IT\u2019S TIME TO MAKE A HUGE CHANGE, SAYS JAY WEATHERILL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/The-Time-Scotty-Hodges-Bailed-On-A-Game-Halfway-Through\"><strong>THE TIME SCOTTY HODGES BAILED ON A GAME HALFWAY THROUGH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Hodges says he lost his way while injured on the Power list in 1997. \u201cThat was another one of those frustrating moments. 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