Eminem said it was 7 years since he made music sober he was hooked on drug. vibe

[Drudge]

http://omg.yahoo.com/news/eminem-opens-up-about-overcoming-painkiller-addiction/22104?nc


Maybe this is why he doesn't make good music anymore. lol

Eminem Opens Up About Overcoming Painkiller Addiction
Access Hollywood - May 4, 2009 12:54 PM PDT

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Story photo: Eminem Opens Up About Overcoming Painkiller AddictionEminem on the cover of Vibe magazine, June 2009 VibeAccess Hollywood

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Just weeks away from the release of his comeback album, "Relapse," Eminem has opened up about his struggles with prescription drug addiction.

Eminem penned his own story for hip-hop magazine Vibe, in which he revealed he was taking dozens of prescription painkillers each day.

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"It's no secret I had a drug problem," he wrote in the magazine, which released excerpts from the interview on Monday. "If I was to give you a number of Vicodin I would actually take in a day? Anywhere between 10 to 20. Valium, Ambien, the numbers got so high I don't even know what I was taking."

After a stay in rehab, the blue-eyed rapper admitted he relapsed badly, almost dying after taking blue pills given to him by a friend.

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"My doctor told me those mysterious new pills were methadone, which is used to wean ###### addicts off dope," he wrote. "Had I known it was methadone, I probably wouldn't have taken it. But as bad as I was back then, I can't even say 100 percent for sure. My doctor told me the amount of methadone I'd taken was equivalent to shooting up four bags of ######. Even when they told me I almost died, it didn't click."

Eminem detoxed, but suffered a physical injury - to his knee - which required going under the surgeon's knife. He wasn't given painkillers for the surgery and it led to another relapse.

"I started looking around my house to see if I had a stash box of Vicodin," Eminem wrote. "I'm ransacking my house, finally find something in the basement, in a little napkin, seven and a half Vicodin -- the big extra strength ones -- and a few Valium."

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As a result of the relapse and subsequent treatment, Eminem said he developed a new understanding of his mother, Deborah Mathers.

"It never once hit me that drug addiction runs in my family," he wrote. "Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it."

Sobriety made recording again a slow process, but a rewarding one, the rapper revealed.

"It was a slow process," he wrote of putting "Relapse" together. "You gotta remember I hadn't recorded a song sober in seven years. So it took me awhile to even feel like I could record a song sober... I don't know the last time I shot a video sober, without drinking or taking anything. It's been years."

But making the record proved inspiring for the now-36-year-old.

"I almost feel like a little kid again with rap. I wanna play around with different flows. If I don't feel like it's what I'm fully capable of, if there's one weak line, I wanna change it," he said. "Rap was my drug. It used to get me high and then it stopped getting me high. Then I had to resort to other things to make me feel that... Now rap's getting me high again."

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[El the Self Image]

lol,
well
he needs to do drugs again, fortunately from him, they are the catylist to the music that made the world fall in love with him....

Without the drugs, I might as well chill with the rappin and just enjoy life.....

[Chamillitary Click]

he needs to do drugs again

[Jaydc555]

Someone should Make an online petition for em to do drugs again so we can hear good music again

[midwestryder]

lol,
well
he needs to do drugs again, fortunately from him, they are the catylist to the music that made the world fall in love with him....

Without the drugs, I might as well chill with the rappin and just enjoy life.....

the same thing happen to too short . too short did shorty the pimp album sober & was not happy with it .so too short went back to drugs to make music.

[Meho]

2009 -7= 2002. Makes sense   

[Russell Bell]

lol,
well
he needs to do drugs again, fortunately from him, they are the catylist to the music that made the world fall in love with him....

Without the drugs, I might as well chill with the rappin and just enjoy life.....

the same thing happen to too short . too short did shorty the pimp album sober & was not happy with it .so too short went back to drugs to make music.

didn't know that about too $hort, thats interesting.  Any more info?