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These nights in expensive hotels and blowing it all on cocaine and vodka. why did you do it? >> well, you know, for years, i managed my drinking and my drug use and, you know, every night that i thought i would have two drinks it would become ten drinks. every night i thought i'd come back at midnight, i'd come back at 9:00 in the morning. as the years progressed, my ability to manage that became less and less successful. so toward the end it reduced to one desire, which was to get high and to seek oblivion. and i lost control. and that's really the point with addiction and alcoholism, which i...