
In your book, you seem to have a healthy home environment growing up. Many addicts have childhood trauma connected to their adult behavior. Those people are a blessing because they helped mirror what I needed to fix about myself, and without those situations I wouldn’t have grown and learned.
#Five finger death punch got your six police full
It’s easy to look for an excuse to blame our using on, but I take full responsibility. I’ve been addicted to everything my whole life. Who, if anyone, do you blame for your drug and alcohol abuse? Family? Friends? Touring? They each responded with, “Oh yeah, I went to rehab, too.” It was a sobering moment and a stark reminder of the seriousness of this issue. I told them that the focus of the interview was his rehab stints due to his drug and alcohol addiction.

I boasted to a couple of officers in our department about how I landed an interview with a rock star, founding drummer of Five Finger Death Punch Jeremy Spencer. If the only way you cope with a stressful day is to drink alcohol and if it’s affecting the people you love most, you may need help. From dealing with the decay of society to working odd hours, there are more than enough reasons to grab a beer after a tour of duty. How much is too much? At what point does it go from casual and social drinking to problematic and disturbing? Anyone who wears a badge knows what goes on in the world.

Although closing bars are a thing of the past for me (thank you wife and children), I manage to get my fun time in with a few cold beers on my regular days off.īut there’s a limit. But one of my favorites we’re good at is partying. There are many things law enforcement officers are good at: solving crimes, responding to domestic violence calls, driving like a stunt man. Five Finger Death Punch founding drummer Jeremy Spencer talks to Blue about the perils of being a rock ‘n’ roll star with an addiction to drugs and alcohol
