{"id":75472,"date":"2023-09-04T10:25:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T10:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=75472"},"modified":"2023-09-04T10:33:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T10:33:28","slug":"dennis-quaid-on-addiction-and-what-saved-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/04\/dennis-quaid-on-addiction-and-what-saved-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Quaid On Addiction and What Saved Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-75544 size-large aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Dennis-Quaid-2023-1024x573.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Dennis-Quaid-2023-1024x573.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Dennis-Quaid-2023-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Dennis-Quaid-2023-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Dennis-Quaid-2023.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 984px) 100vw, 984px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Dennis Quaid&#8217;s Confession, How His Faith Helped Him Overcome Addiction<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Dennis Quaid claims he&#8217;s now &#8220;happiest I&#8217;ve ever been,&#8221; but he&#8217;s had a long struggle to get there. In the 1980s, as he established himself as a movie star in films such as The Right Stuff, Suspect, The Big Easy, and D.O.A., the actor and musician admitted to battling addiction.\u00a0Upon realizing his future, he entered rehab in 1990 &#8211; what he calls &#8220;cocaine school.&#8221; It is his belief that addicts are trying to fill a gap in themselves, adding that when they have gotten rid of their addiction, they need something else to fill that gap. After rehab, Quaid started returning to his Christian roots. \u201cI\u2019m grateful I\u2019m still alive, I\u2019m thankful to be alive every single day,\u201d he says. It is crucial to enjoy your life to the fullest, since it will be full of challenges and stuff to knock it down.<\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Watch Dennis Quaid in an interview with People Magazine below &#8220;I&#8217;m Grateful To Still Be Here&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G8UcMPCoUPQ?si=7e4-0hnaeJRD0kCY\" width=\"1024\" height=\"525\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-75402 aligncenter\" style=\"text-align: start;\" src=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/whisnews21logo2020b-1000-x-200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"395\" height=\"79\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/whisnews21logo2020b-1000-x-200.png 1000w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/whisnews21logo2020b-1000-x-200-300x60.png 300w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/whisnews21logo2020b-1000-x-200-768x154.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Quaid&#8217;s Confession, How His Faith Helped Him Overcome Addiction Dennis Quaid claims he&#8217;s now &#8220;happiest I&#8217;ve ever been,&#8221; but he&#8217;s had a long struggle to get there. In the 1980s, as he established himself as a movie star in films such as The Right Stuff, Suspect, The Big Easy, and D.O.A., the actor and musician admitted to battling addiction.\u00a0Upon realizing his future, he entered rehab in 1990 &#8211; what he calls &#8220;cocaine school.&#8221; It is his belief that addicts are trying to fill a gap in themselves, adding that<a href=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/04\/dennis-quaid-on-addiction-and-what-saved-him\/\" class=\"read-more\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[318,317,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75472"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75552,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75472\/revisions\/75552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}