He Quit Drinking After His Hip Was Destroyed. Adrian Cox's Story

Adrian Cox needed a hip replacement at thirty. Not from a sports injury. From drinking. The alcohol had thinned his blood so much it stopped feeding the ends of his bones, and the ball of his hip had turned half black.

This is the recovery story of a jazz musician and the tour manager of UK ska legends Bad Manners. Adrian tells Sober Dave about leaving home at fifteen to join a band in Devon, the cooking sherry by the river that became his daily routine, drinking himself into hospital wards he had researched on Google, and the call from a sober stranger that finally turned things around.

You'll hear about: drinking on tour as a teenager; living above a pub in Belgravia with a £700 a week bar tab; cocaine and gambling addictions; losing friends to drink; the avascular necrosis that took his hip at thirty; and what eight years sober actually feels like in the music industry.

If you've ever told yourself your drinking is just part of your job, this one's for you.

This episode of One For The Road is sponsored by https://tweaklife.co.uk/ Further information and links attached below.

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Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice and for Adrian.

Instagram- @ontheroadinrecovery @adriancoxmusic

www.Facebook.com/adriancoxmusic

https://alcoholchange.org.uk/https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/

https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services

https://nacoa.org.uk/

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