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EMENIM SPEAKS ABOUT DRUG ADDICTION


Shortly after detoxing, he suffered a knee

injury that required surgery, but because
In a candid new interview, rap super-
of his drug abuse, he was not prescribed
star Eminem reveals he suffered from
pain killers. "I started looking around my
a devastating drug addiction that led
house to see if I had a stash box of Vi-
to him downing as many as 20 Vi-
codin ... I'm ransacking my house, finally
codin, Ambien and Valium in a
find something in the basement, in a little
day."The numbers got so high, I don't
napkin, seven and a half Vicodin — the
even know what I was taking,"
big extra strength ones — and a few Val-
Eminem tells VIBE magazine in its
ium." With his pill addiction spiraling out
second annual Real Rap Issue for
of control again, Eminem suffered his
June/July. Following his first stint in
second relapse before accepting he suf-
rehab in 2005, the rapper, 36, tells
fered from drug addiction.
VIBE he nearly overdosed after an ac-
It never once hit me that drug addiction
quaintance gave him unidentified blue
runs in my family. Now that I under-
standthat I'm an addict, I definitely have
pills, which a doctor later told him
compassion for my mother. I get it," he
were actually methadone. "My doctor
says.
With his new album, "Relapse," due out
told me the amount of methadone I'd
May 19, Eminem says he has been sober
taken was equivalent to shooting up
for a year and is ready to return to the
four bags of heroin," Eminem says,
spotlight. "I'm back," he says. "Rap was
noting that had he known, "I probably
my drug. It used to get me high and then
wouldn't have taken it. But as bad as I
it stopped getting me high. Then I had to
was back then, I can't even say 100
resort to other things to make me feel
percent for sure."
that ... now rap's getting me high again."

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