""He just said 'when I'm looking at you, I can't see anything behind your eyes'," Bogle told BBC Radio Stoke. "I've known him for over 10 years, so he's family to me now, but like everyone else, he didn't know the extent what I was doing. "I knew I was using ridiculous amounts, but when they [doctors] tell me that 'you've overdosed a gazillion times and you should be dead' and all these things, I didn't know it was to that extent.""
""It's the shame and guilt that you get from knowing that you're doing something that you probably shouldn't be doing, or living your life in a way that you probably shouldn't be, coupled with things not going right in your life at the time as well,' he recalled. 'It was coupled with, I'm not playing well, I'm not performing well, I continue to keep getting injured, and my relationships are going wrong in my life. 'The shame and guilt you get from that is enough to drive you to use more.'""
""After the wake-up call from his agent, Bogle sought help and checked into a rehabilitation unit on 2 July. He kept it quiet from everyone at the club aside from his chairman Charles Grant and manager Lee Bell, but praised both their support and that of his team-mates on his return. 'My team-mates have been amazing,' Bogle said. 'Effectively they're more than just my team-mates, some of them are really good life friends.'""
Omar Bogle, a 32-year-old Crewe Alexandra forward, developed a reliance on prescription painkillers after a back injury, which escalated into addiction to painkillers and alcohol. He did not realise the scale until his agent intervened and doctors warned he had overdosed many times and 'should be dead.' The addiction coincided with depression, suicidal thoughts, poor performance, recurring injuries and relationship breakdowns. Shame and guilt fuelled further substance use. Bogle entered a rehabilitation unit on 2 July, kept the treatment private except with chairman Charles Grant and manager Lee Bell, and received strong support from teammates on his return.
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