Eminem Opens up About His Past Addiction to Vicodin

By: Amanda Anderson-Niles

Eminem has been in the rap game long enough to have established his name on the list of greats and he’s easily handled his own on the same tracks with other notable emcees such as Jay-Z. Despite all of Em’s success in Hip Hop, he’s still struggled in his personal life. And in a documentary entitled “How to Make Money Selling Dr*gs,” Eminem also reveals that he struggled with substance abuse when he battled his addiction to the pain killer and the very highly addictive Vicodin.  He says:

“When I took my first Vicodin, it was like this feeling of ‘Ahh.’ Like everything was not only mellow, but [I] didn’t feel any pain. I don’t know at what point exactly it started to be a problem. I just remember liking it more and more. People tried to tell me that I had a problem. I would say ‘Get that f*cking person outta here. I can’t believe they said that sh*t to me. I’m not out there shooting heroin. I’m not fu*king out there putting coke up my nose. I’m not smoking crack.”

 

Eminem also claimed he eventually began doing Xanax and Valium; he also began to mix the pills. The mixing is why he was eventually rushed to the hopsital one day:

“Had I got to the hospital about two hours later, I would have died. My organs were shutting down. My liver, kidneys, everything. They were gonna have to put me on dialysis. They didn’t think I was gonna make it. My bottom was gonna be death.”

 

Eminem sys it was his kids that pretty much gave him the motivation he needed to get off the pills. He got clean through a self-imposed detox.

Check out the trailer for the documentary below: