Editing Moby (section)

===Drug use===
From 1987 to 1995, Moby described his life as a "very clean" one and abstained from drugs, alcohol, and "for the most part", sex.<ref name=TI05/> After taking [[LSD]] once at nineteen, he started to suffer from panic attacks which he continued to experience, but he learned to deal with them more effectively.<ref name=PT04>{{cite web|url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/200409/the-sounds-moby|work=Psychology Today|title=The Sounds of Moby|first=Willow|last=Lawson|date=September 1, 2004|access-date=April 9, 2019|archive-date=December 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204031802/https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/200409/the-sounds-moby|url-status=live}}</ref> Moby recalls that shortly after his mother died from lung cancer in 1997, he had "an epiphany" and began to experiment with alcohol, drugs, and sex. This continued for four years after the commercial success of ''Play''.<ref name=TI05/><ref name=NYT02/><ref name=TG00>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/259647767/|title=Jesus of suburbia|first=Paul|last=Lester|date=June 16, 2000|newspaper=The Guardian|page=54|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|access-date=April 29, 2019|archive-date=August 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804005952/https://www.newspapers.com/image/259647767/|url-status=live}}</ref> He became a self-confessed "old-timey alcoholic".<ref name=TG160521/> During his ''18'' tour in 2002 he found himself being argumentative and alienating close friends. At the end of the year he wished to make amends and live a healthier lifestyle and promised a girlfriend that he would quit alcohol for one month; he lasted two weeks.<ref name=TI05/> Moby continued to drink to excess and would ask audiences at concerts to give him drugs. Matters culminated shortly after he turned 43 when he attempted suicide; he had his last drink on October 18, 2008, and has since attended [[Alcoholics Anonymous]] meetings.<ref>{{cite news |last=Lester |first=Paul |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/sep/26/moby-aa-chance-see-fellow-musicians |title=Moby: 'Going to AA is the only chance in LA you get to see fellow musicians' &#124; Music |work=theguardian.com |access-date=February 2, 2014 |archive-date=April 26, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140426231557/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/sep/26/moby-aa-chance-see-fellow-musicians |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=Q11>{{cite web|url=https://thequietus.com/interviews/moby-interview-destroyed/|title='The Humility That Comes from Being Hated': Moby Interviewed|work=The Quietus|first=Stephen|last=Dalton|date=May 9, 2011|access-date=April 9, 2019|archive-date=May 15, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240515191801/https://thequietus.com/interviews/moby-interview-destroyed/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.menshealth.com/health/a27337138/moby-panic-attacks-suicide-book/|title=How Moby Got Famous, Hit Rock Bottom, and (Ultimately) Found Redemption|first=Josh|last=St. Clair|date=May 10, 2019|magazine=Men's Health|access-date=May 15, 2019|archive-date=May 13, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190513022050/https://www.menshealth.com/health/a27337138/moby-panic-attacks-suicide-book/|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2016, he said of his sobriety: "Since I stopped and reoriented myself towards things that have meaning, everything has gotten a million times better".<ref name=TG16/>