When former SF Giants star Aubrey Huff defied drug temptation on his road to sobriety
In February 2017, former San Francisco Giants star Aubrey Huff released his autobiography, "Baseball Junkie" along with his co-author, Stephen Cassar. In the book, the former first baseman / designated hitter / third baseman / right fielder opened up about defying drug temptation on his road to sobriety among other sensational confessions.
As per Huff, he began taking Adderall in 2009 and was crushing 20, sometimes 50, 60, and almost 100 milligrams daily. Eventually, he quit taking the combination drug after retiring from MLB.
Although, Huff has been off the drug since 2012, navigating the temptation of drugs was the real deal.
“There are times when I’m having a bad day, like everybody does, and I think, ‘Man, what would it be like to be on Adderall right now?'” Huff said. “Of course that goes through your mind. But I know that I’ll never reach for one. I know what it’s cost me now.”
Adderall is considered a banned substance by MLB, without a valid therapeutic use exemption.
Apart from Adderall, the former 2× World Series champion (2010, 2012) also developed a dependency on alcohol to help him sleep, drinking 12–15 beers after MLB games.
Aubrey Huff admitted to using Adderall during the San Francisco Giants' 2010 World Series win
In March 2017 interview with CBS Sports, former SF Giants star Aubrey Huff opened up about using Adderall through the 2010 championship season.
“I think at the end of the 2010 World — we win the World Series in 2010 (with the San Francisco Giants), I was seventh in the league in MVP voting, leader in the clubhouse, offensively I carried the team,” Huff explained. “You know, I was having a great year, one of the best years I’ve ever had obviously with winning the World Series. The next morning I woke up next to my wife after we won the World Series, and I looked her dead in the eye and I go, ‘Huh. Now what?’ It was a feeling — I was coming down from my Adderall — it was a feeling of worthlessness and emptiness because I worked my whole life to win a World Series, but I felt so empty inside and so ashamed.
He added:
“So I went through that whole 2010 playing under the influence. … I think in a lot of ways, Adderall is more potent than any steroid you can take because, as you know, baseball is a game of mental toughness, and Adderall gets into your head and makes you feel invincible.”
Currently, Aubrey Huff often becomes the center of controversy for his Twitter antics.