How NRL players are helping to break down barriers surrounding mental illness

By Daniel Lane
Updated April 30 2016 - 6:13pm, first published 5:54pm

The NRL's senior welfare and education manager Paul Heptonstall says the willingness of the code's players to seek assistance for mental health issues - and then talk openly about it  - has helped save "many, many lives" in the broader community.

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