A woman died at the age of 40 after a battle with drug addiction.

Samantha Jane Thompson, of Russell Court in Farnworth, died on March 28 at a home in Linslade Gardens in Bolton.

Evidence from Christine Thompson, Ms Thompson’s sister, was read out.

It stated that Ms Thompson had become addicted to drugs around the age of 20 and had suffered with poor mental health, which she believed resulted in her drug use.

When Ms Thompson’s children were taken away from her it caused her mental health to deteriorate further, the inquest heard.

Paramedics found Ms Thompson on the living room floor and she was pronounced dead at the scene.

Dr Patrick Waugh, pathologist at Royal Bolton Hospital, gave Ms Thompson’s medical cause of death as combined drug toxicity.

Toxicologist Nicola Martin found evidence of heroin and cocaine, as well as prescription drugs including methadone, morphine, diazepam and codeine in her blood.

The inquest heard that Ms Thompson underwent a detoxification from heroin in 2006, which failed.

Lindsay Price, a Greater Manchester Mental Health recovery coordinator at Achieve in Bolton, an NHS substance misuse treatment and recovery service, said that Ms Thompson’s engagement with the service as ‘sporadic’.

But that in February Ms Thompson ‘was expressing willingness to make concerted effort to reduce her substance abuse’.

Ms Price then attempted to contact Ms Thompson on March 3 this year to no avail.

Det Insp Damian Threader said two men who had been at the address with Ms Thompson were arrested on suspicion of supplying a controlled drug.

DI Threader said: “The result of the investigation was that although there were admissions of drug ownership and use, there was no evidence that came to light that they had supplied her.

“There were no signs of assault or any other incident taking place there.”

He added: “No other party had supplied or administered a drug or noxious substance to Ms Thompson.”

Croner Peter Sigee accepted the medical cause of death of combined drug toxicity and determined Ms Thompson’s death as drug-related.