The Outlet talks with Mike Doughty about this new memoir The Book of Drugs, medication, luck, Soul Coughing, and more.
“I don’t think active pain is necessarily useful. I don’t know what it’d be like if I was drawing from a [laughs] happy childhood, but I don’t feel like a false self. The first time I’d started taking drugs for depression – I didn’t know I was bipolar yet; this was before I’d gotten sober – my sexuality shut down.”
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