The Secret Drug Addict: "You cannot quite understand the power of addiction until you’ve seen it eat like acid through everything you are"

Having succumbed to Britpop excess, the now sober – 6,854 days and counting – Secret Drug Addict is on a mission to help others escape the cycle of addiction. He talks to Stuart Clark about his new book, working for Creation Records, people dying in front of him and his eventual road to recovery.