"He enjoyed the very privileges which he condemned in his songs; he complained about alcoholism and drug addiction but was an addict himself; he attacked corruption, but without bribery his life would have been much harder," Mr Schlicht explained to me.
Yet the very nature of addiction is that it denies an addict the freedom of choice, as he or she becomes a slave to the drug.
From the opening monologue ("We're all hiding something, aren't we?") to the unbroken soundtrack of weepy-guy rock to the spirit-free performances of the three leads, Being Human is weak and weepy non-horror aimed at the grown-up Twilight addict.
I'm hardly a crack addict," she said, in her defence.
Michael Fassbender stars as a sex addict whose sober demeanour is completely at odds with his chaotic sex life.
Police also had leverage over Griggs: he was a heroin addict.
The trial included a taped confession in which he said he was a drug addict and had hired mercenaries for the attack.
Literature began to pepper the windshields of cars at political events suggesting that Mr. McCain had committed treason while a prisoner of war in North Vietnam, that he was mentally unstable after years in a POW camp, that he was the homosexual candidate and that Mrs McCain, who had admitted to abusing prescription drugs years earlier, was an addict.
This was the harrowing but compelling tale not only of how Christiane became a heroin addict, but of a whole generation of children in West Berlin who were dying in a heroin epidemic.
She is also the most famous heroin addict in Germany, if not Europe, and is rumoured to be still on the stuff.
"What you had was a drug addict high on meth and alcohol," he said, speculating that Jeanetta may have been seeking out a fatal encounter with police – or trying to commit "suicide by cop".
