“I come from, not an alcoholic background, but my dad was a drinker and people in my family were drinkers, and being born in England, that was just part of pub culture.” ~ Slash Born in London in 1965 to artistically-inclined parents, young Saul Hudson was raised during early childhood by his father and paternal grandparents while his mother went to Los Angeles to look for work.

Our substance use disorder program accepts many health insurance plans, this is our residential program.” Let’s take a closer look at the stories of Slash and his Guns N’ Roses bandmates to see what the rest of us can learn. Recently, he has been openly discussing his past vices and his eventual recovery from alcohol and heroin addiction. It reached the point where the doctors gave me between six days and six weeks to live.” With such an extreme personal history, it’s a refreshing surprise to see Slash today-sober since 2005, he is healthier than ever. Slash says, “Years of drinking had swollen my heart to the point of bursting. The reason for the defibrillator? Years of chronic and heavy alcohol abuse. Eventually, he had to have a defibrillator implanted to protect against sudden cardiac death. And in 2001, at the too-young age of only 35, Slash was diagnosed with a form of congestive heart failure known as cardiomyopathy. In fact, drugs “killed” him on multiple occasions-Slash admits that he overdosed and flatlined at least three times that he knows of. One writer described the band as “ a wagonload of nitroglycerine tattling towards a precipice.” And Slash- real name Saul Hudson- was no exception. And in an industry for excess, the bad boys of GNR seemed determined to set a new standard for drinking, drug use, and debauchery. In the mid-1980s, he became internationally famous as the lead guitarist for the hard rock band Guns N’ Roses. Because that’s usually what happens with anybody who doesn’t come to terms with it at some point.” ~ Slash One of the greatest guitarists of all time is known by just one syllable- Slash. This is an effort to use what we know about Slash’s substance abuse struggles and eventual recovery to help other people who are fighting similar battles right now. DISCLAIMER: As a member of the “most dangerous band in the world”, Slash and the other members of Guns N’ Roses lived a well-documented rock & roll lifestyle that included heavy drinking and drug use.

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