A woman was left distraught after waking up after a quiet night drinking with her partner to find he had passed away in their living room.
Jonathon Mark was found dead slumped over a table in his flat in The Crescent, Bridlington on the morning of June 5, 2021.
As well as being prescribed various medications for depression, anxiety, insomnia, and previous drug addictions including heroin and cocaine, the dad was also taking pain relief for a severe leg ulcer.
He had been looking forward to having his son stay with him later in the month and had a holiday planned, Hull Live reports.
Tragically, it was concluded at the inquest that his death was drug-related.
According to a summary of the partner's statement read out in court, Jonathon Green was living with his partner and they had been in a relationship for around two years. On the evening of June 4, they had a night in, sharing two bottles of Lambrini.
She fell asleep at 10.30pm on the sofa, woke up the next morning, and noticed Jonathon unresponsive and "slumped over the table in the living room".
She panicked, telephoned her mum, and a paramedic later attended the scene and declared that life was extinct.
As part of her statement, the woman described how, as well as the prescribed medication he was taking, Jonathon had sourced drugs from Bradford to provide pain relief to a leg ulcer.
"He was in a lot of pain so therefore he sourced his own drugs," his partner said.
Johnathon was warned by both his partner and a cousin to not take the non-prescribed drugs. "He often tried to hide the drugs from me as he was taking so many," she said.
GP records indicated that he suffered from depression and drug abuse, and was taking regular medication for this and anxiety and insomnia, including methadone.
He was referred in 2019 to the East Riding Partnership for help with his drug addictions to heroin and benzodiazepines and infrequently used the service after this point.
At a meeting with an East Riding Partnership team leader barely a month before his death, a drug screen presented as positive for cannabis and cocaine.
He presented as well-kempt and spoke about his son staying with him in June and going on a holiday. The team leader noted his leg injury: "I observed that the leg ulcer looked very nasty."
Mirtazapine and amitriptyline were seized by police officers who attended to the flat on June 5.
A post-mortem examination carried out by Dr Ian Richmond found his leg ulcer on his right to be 10cm by 6cm and his spleen indicated a degree of chronic sepsis related to the leg ulcer.
A significant number of drugs were identified by toxicology in Jonathon Green's blood, including codeine, diazepam, mirtazapine, pregabalin, nortriptyline, and methadone.
The substance with the highest concentration was methadone at 1,266 nanograms per millilitre. A combination of drugs, particularly methadone, diazepam, and codeine, was viewed as likely to have resulted in significant respiratory depression.
The cause of death was found to be drug-related and mixed drug toxicity. There was no specific intent found to cause himself harm and Coroner Harris noted he was forward planning for a holiday.
She also noted the "severe pain" of the leg ulcer he was suffering, and also that he had taken non-prescribed medication in relation to this.
She concluded proceedings by offering her sincerest condolences to Jonathon Green's family, who were not present at the inquest but had requested a recording.
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