Former Australian Cricket Captain Kim Hughes has been the subject of plenty of sporting stories.
But more recently the cricket great's friends and family had come to dread a very different type of headline.Subscribe: [ Ссылка ] Read more here: [ Ссылка ]
Ones describing Kim Hughes wandering drunk in the street ... or more sickening ... that he'd been involved in a drink driving accident. For Kim Hughes, like so many Australians, the COVID-19 pandemic dramatically impacted his working life and his drinking.
Last year the number of calls for help to the national alcohol and drug hotline trebled ...
In Kim Hughes' case - it was his friends and family that sounded the alarm
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