Stone Temple Pilots' Scott Weiland Talks About His Support Of MAP

11/10/2002 7:00 AM, Yahoo! Music
Jerry Armor

(11/10/02, 7 a.m. ET) -- Stone Temple Pilots' Scott Weiland talked to LAUNCH about his support of the Musician's Assistance Program (MAP), prior to his performance Thursday (November 7) for the third annual MAP Awards dinner fundraiser, at the House Of Blues in Los Angeles.

Founded in 1992 by musician and ex-addict Buddy Arnold and partner Carole Fields, MAP helps musicians seeking recovery from drug and alcohol abuse. Weiland spoke highly of the organization, and Arnold in particular.

"One time he even came up to me and said, 'Look, I don't think you're ready to stop shooting dope right now, so I think we ought to take you down to the methadone clinic and get you put on methadone.' And I thought that was really cool, coming from a sober guy. Unfortunately, methadone didn't work for me--it took a few months behind bars for it to sort of settle in for me--but, uh, the foundation's amazing, it's helped a lot of musicians."

-- Darryl Morden, Los Angeles

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