Hunter Biden’s moving memoir of descent into and ascent from substance abuse By IANS| Updated: 7th February 2021 11:56 am IST New Delhi, Feb 7 : Hunter Biden, the second son of US President Joe Biden from his first wife Nellia Hunter Biden, spent decades struggling with alcohol and drug addiction. “There’s addiction in every family. I was in that darkness. I was in that tunnel – it’s a never-ending tunnel. You don’t get rid of it. You figure out how to deal with it,” he told Wilmington’s “The News-Journal” two years ago. Now, he explains just how he dealt with it.