Dan Peres Opens Up About His 60-a-Day Opioid Addiction

“I had a high-profile magazine job and so I think some of the things I did like drive down to Tijuana, Mexico, and smuggle 1,000 pills over the border and then go on the “Bill Maher” show that same day or go out and try to find heroin after hosting a party for Hollywood celebrities in L.A., these are probably things that might surprise some people,” muses Dan Peres. “But it’s my story.” Dressed casually in jeans and a navy sweater over a white shirt, the former Details editor in chief is perched on a chair under the bright lights of a studio and appears much healthier these days, although visibly uncomfortable at the prospect of having his photograph taken. After all, he’s used to being on the other side. This, though, is something he’s going to have to get used to as he promotes his new HarperCollins memoir “As Needed For Pain,” which shines a light on the first half of his 15-year-long Details reign, during which he was at one point swallowing up to 60 Vicodin pills a day and concealing it from everyone. Only once did he try to score the aforementioned heroin, but was chased away by a

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