His band might now be driving the folk revolution, but it "started in a place of desperation", when the songwriter could not handle his drug and drink addictions any longer and his former band, Ima Robot, signed by Virgin, felt sterile.
Sugary drinks, addiction and obesity are inextricably linked: excess sugar in the diet may be a greater cause of obesity than fat is.
Andres says he kicked his Coca-Cola soft-drink addiction by eating cold gazpacho soup almost every day, keeping it in a pitcher in his refrigerator.
Peter Lawrie says he suffered a huge slump in form while trying to address what he calls a fizzy drinks addiction.
DRUG SINGING It's like Gregorian chanting, but instead of monks it's the Weeknd and Future crooning about their purple drank addictions.
Me Cheeta, to be released in October, will explore his struggle with drink and addiction to cigars, his breakthrough with a radical new form of abstract painting ("apeism"), his relationship with his nightclub-performing grandson Jeeta, and his battle with diabetes.
And he drank, an addiction that became ruinous.
W. C. Fields, as persuasive a public figure as Martha Stewart herself, would have grumbled at so many vessels filled with stuff not fit to drink -- an addiction to booze being a drop more gratifying than an addiction to ooze.
Demi Lovato spoke of her struggle with drink and drug addiction as she launched a mental health campaign advocating increased openness about mental illness.
Tatum O'Neal, the Oscar-winning former child actress who wrote a best-selling memoir of her struggles with drink and drug addiction, has been arrested on suspicion of buying crack cocaine.
