Dan: As Needed for Pain is about my struggle with a massive addiction to opiates, prescription painkillers. The major part of my addiction, which lasted for about seven years, overlapped with my time as being the editor-in-chief of Details magazine, which closed in 2015 but was published by Condé Nast. I had this really great and exciting job in media that had me visible to the world and interacting with lots of people, but I had a huge secret. I was a drug addict.