American rapper Eminem (Marshall Mathers) A few days ago he shared a revealing image on his Instagram profile, an Alcoholics Anonymous recovery medal with the number 16, marking the number of years he has been sober, and the organization’s motto: Unity, Service, Recovery.
What were the substances that dominated the musician’s life between 2002 and 2008? He has revealed that in those years His only way to hit rock bottom would have been death. Hitting rock bottom, in the philosophy of Alcoholics Anonymous, is the state in which The person finally recognizes that they have a problem alcoholism or another type of addiction, and that you need and should seek specialized help.
Before that crisis, the last studio album by Emas his friends and fans call him, was encore (2004). In 2005 his addiction to prescription drugs was such that he had to take a break from his career.
As he said when interviewed for the documentary How To Make Money Selling Drugs, He also had to gain courage to utter the humiliating but inevitable phrase of everyone who attends an AA meeting: “My name is Marshall. “I’m an addict.”
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“When I took my first Vicodin, I had this feeling that everything was smooth, that I didn’t feel any pain,” he told the film’s director, Matthew Cooke. “I don’t know at what point it started to be a problem,” he added, describing the path many addicts start down. “I just remember that I like it more and more. People told me I had a problem, and I… (insulted them). ‘Get that bastard out of here. How dare you tell me that. I’m not doing heroin. I don’t have cocaine in my nose. I’m not smoking crack.’”
Eminem confessed to Cooke that his prescription addiction got out of control when he started mixing them: Xanax, Valium, they’re the same thing.” He ended up hospitalized in an emergency.
“Two hours later, he would have died. My organs were shutting down. My liver, kidneys, everything. They were going to put me on dialysis. My background was going to be death.”
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A month after being discharged, he had relapsed, and he knew that his condition was going to kill him. Where did he get his strength from? Of his father’s role. “I look at my children and realize that I have to be there for them.”
He began detoxing suddenly, and went three weeks without sleep. “I had to regain my abilities to move and speak. I couldn’t believe that someone could be happy without taking anything. So I can tell you that everything gets better.”
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He returned to the music industry with Relapse (2009), and Recovery it came out the following year (relapse and recovery, respectively). Recovery was the best-selling album worldwide in 2010, making it Eminem’s second album, after The eminem show in 2002, to be the best-selling album of the year worldwide. (AND)
