Russell Brand has not used drugs for 10 years. He has a job, a house, a cat, good friends. But temptation is never far away. He wants to help other addicts, but first he wants us to feel compassion for those affected — like Amy Winehouse.
“It is my belief that if you regard alcoholics and drug addicts not as bad people but as sick people then we can help them to get better,” he wrote in the Guardian. “By we, I mean other people who have the same problem but have found a way to live drug-and-alcohol-free lives.”
This is the reason he started a fund within Comic Relief, called Give It Up — to raise awareness of, and money for, abstinence-based recovery.
