article_snippet: the hideous disease of addiction slowly crept back up again' and Simon died of a pain medication overdose in 2010. '
article_snippet: His life mattered': Simon Millington, pictured here with Simon young daughter Maddie, died in 2010 after a sixteen year fight with prescription drugs which Simon became addicted to after being caught in a car accident in August 1994 .
article_snippet: Simon had grappled with an addiction to pain medication for some sixteen years, John Millington told Daily Mail Australia, following a devastating car accident in August 1994, when Simon was just 18-years-old.
article_snippet: we thought the bad times were behind we but the hideous disease of addiction slowly crept back into we lives again.
article_snippet: After a long and worrying time we lost we battle to keep Sime alive and Simon died of an overdose of Oxycontin in 2010.