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Russell Brand: My Life Without Drugs
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/mar/09/russell-brand-life-without-drugsRussell Brand has not used drugs for 10 years. He has a job, a house, a cat, good friends. But temptation is never far away. He wants to help other addicts, but first he wants us to feel compassion for those affected.
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Iwillnevergiveup
Feb 2014
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Can barely imagine what he had to draw upon inside himself to write that. Brilliant.
libdem4life
Feb 2014
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Skittles
(153,160 posts)1. thank you Russell Brand
I hope he can help others understand addiction
dhill926
(16,337 posts)2. K & R.....
well said .
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)3. Can barely imagine what he had to draw upon inside himself to write that. Brilliant.
PeteSelman
(1,508 posts)4. That must be a terrible way to live.
Always on the jones, never able to satisfy it.
I'm so glad I'm not like that. And I damn well could have been.
Powerful.
Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)5. Drug addiction - definition seems to be
demonic possession.