ERIC HOWK OF PORTUGAL. THE MAN

 ROCKING AND ROLLING INTO RECOVERY

“I had a million excuses not to go to rehab.

“`I haven’t driven my car off a bridge. I haven’t killed myself. 

I’m drinking a bottle of whiskey a day, but I’m holding it together.

I’m a successful touring musician. 

I can address this 10 years from now,’” he said, recounting the ways he put off getting clean.

This exclusive, first published by United Spinal, is the most lengthy, candid sharing of his substance issue story Howk had ever done.

He said even if there are many musicians and people with disabilities that have substance problems, he feels his is a genetic issue.