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Carl Barat has candidly spoken out about his past heroin and crack use, in a revealing interview.
Speaking to The Guardian about his new band The Jackals, Barat opened up about his previous debauchery and long term drug use.
"My drugs have always been uppers because I like to be in control of my faculties" the frontman explained, "I’ve got so much to expel and express that I feel like heroin’s slowing me down. It also makes you sexually inactive, and I didn’t want to be sexually inactive as a 23-year-old."
He continued to detail to the paper about how he subsequently decided to change his ways, something which was no doubt difficult with bandmate Pete Doherty also being a regular user: "I embraced it as much as Peter did, no doubt about it. And that made it hard, of course it did. But I had a rule that said you can’t do heroin and crack, because they seemed to be in a different area. Now that rule would maybe have been broken if I had been interested in crack and heroin. But to me crack is just panic and heroin is inactivity … but hopefully that’s all behind us."
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Carl Barat and The Jackals' new album Let It Reign is released 16 February, with the band also set to play London's Scala on 15 April, tickets are available here.
