Babyshambles and former Libertines singer Pete Doherty is infamous for his drug habit. He has openly talked about using drugs and when dating Kate Moss, the pair got caught taking cocaine.
However, in an interview in this week's issue of NME, Doherty says that he can't see himself giving up drugs as he finds it too difficult.
"I don't think it's possible to sustain a healthy - for want of a better word - cocaine and heroin dependency, and then call yourself healthy by any stretch of the imagination," he said.
"You're a fool unto yourself if you think that. Getting over 30... it's reached a point now where there's no way round it. It's like, either curb it or stop it, or lose your health. To get better you have to get worse. When I stop smoking crack, which I have done recently - I am smoking a lot less - my lungs, all of a sudden, start churning out all this horrible s**t. Which, while you're smoking, you don't get the chance to do. It's almost that the first thing about giving up drugs is to descend into a pitched toe-to-toe street fight with your health."
When asked what would have to change fr him to give up completely, he said: "Probably my sex drive will have to go. Or I'll have to lose a hand."
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