but ultimately, he says, he still ached even after a dozen pills a day. At the nadir of his habit, while in London for a command performance for Queen Elizabeth II, he found himself in Soho buying 10 tablets of the stuff for $200 a pop. "I was a doper of the first rate," he says. He describes himself as a doper for taking pills because "he still ached even after a dozen pills a day."
It that an addict or a person who needs the drugs for pain calling himself an addict ?