Williams used to be a big-drinking cocaine addict, but quit both before the birth of his eldest son in 1983, and stayed sober for 20 years.
The first, Milton Chester Milodragovitch, known as Milo, is a multiply divorced, hard-drinking, cocaine-snorting womanizer.
The second, C. W. Sughrue (" 'Shoog' as in sugar, honey," the detective explains, "and 'rue' as in rue the goddamned day"), is a former Vietnam War criminal and hard-drinking, cocaine-snorting womanizer.
His critics accuse him of heavy drinking and cocaine use, which he denies.
"I was smoking weed, drinking, using cocaine, and I had my share of smoking crack.
But soon after her son was born, she resumed drinking, using cocaine and hanging out with other addicts.
In the 70s he would try curbing his drinking with cocaine, and ended up addicted to both.
Early scenes of her stoned friends sprawled around a fancy living room, drinking, sniffing cocaine and mumbling fuzzily about their discontents offer a devastating vision of youthful suburban ennui.
When Theo Fleury was a Ranger, he said, he would stay out all night drinking, doing cocaine, going "below the streets of New York City" to "party with freaks, transvestites, strippers" or to "hang out with homeless guys around a burn barrel" on the West Side piers.
He is waking up after a night of heavy drinking and cocaine use.
"One time, I was drinking, doing cocaine, taking ecstasy, eating mushrooms, and I did acid on the same day," he reveals.
