Fallen Stars

He was addicted to prescription medication, including Ambien, Valium, and Vicodin from 2002 to 2008. He went to rehab in 2005 but the next year he started using again after his best friend, DeShaun "Proof" Holton was shot and killed. In 2007, after he accidentally overdosed on methadone and relapsed again a month later, Eminem decided to get clean due to the fact that his organs were shutting down and his bottom was going to be dead. The doctor told him that he took “the equivalent of four bags of heroin” and that he was “about two hours from dying”. He is sober now and uses running as a helping mechanism and a motivation.