In Hooked: Secrets and Highs of a Sober Addict, Melinda Ferguson explores, perhaps, the only thing more difficult than breaking a drug habit. Clean for seven/eight years – going on to 10 – Ferguson discovers that it is a constant uphill battle to stay off drugs. There are ‘dangerous places’ where those wishing to steer their lives away from cocaine, heroin and other drugs of choice need to avoid. A bar and nightclub, it would appear, is not the best place for someone trying to conquer alcoholism.