Addiction to drugs or alcohol doesn’t stop at best-selling authors, Hollywood actors, and music stars. For some singers, addiction has been such a memorable experience in their lives that they’ve written about their addiction, drug withdrawal, and recovery in song. The pain and emotion caused by drug abuse never affect the addict alone.
Family, friends, and acquaintances often have to watch helplessly as drugs destroy a loved one’s life.
Too many songs glorify drugs and alcohol. We also already have a Drugs playlist created that should not be taken entirely seriously! However, in this article, we want to discuss pop and Rock songs that seriously address addiction, dependency, and recovery and may help you on your journey to a better life.
We all crave inspiration in the form of music at one time or another. For a recovering addict, music can help with healing. It’s always a good idea to keep an addiction playlist on hand for those moments when you need a little extra inspiration.
Below, we’d like to present you with 120 songs that deal with addiction, dependence, and the process of recovery. Every day you’re sober and clean should be a cause for celebration. Create your very own playlist to remind you how far you’ve come.
Or make a playlist for someone you love who is still on the journey to a better life without drugs.
120 Songs about addiction, dependence, and recovery:
Song: | Performer: | Listen to: |
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Amazing | Aerosmith | |
Rehab | Amy Winehouse | |
Drug Dealer | Macklemore (featuring Ariana DeBoo) | |
Young Homie | Chris Rene | |
Breathe (2 AM) | Anna Nalick | |
It Ain’t the Whiskey | Gary Allan | |
Going Through Change | Eminem | |
Rusty Cage | Soundgarden | |
Runaway | Ed Sheeran | |
Whiskey Lullaby | Brad Paisley feat. Alison Krauss | |
Bottom of a Bottle | Smile Empty Soul | |
Hot Beer and Cold Women | Randy Houser | |
Fallen | Sarah McLachlan | |
It’s Been Awhile | Staind | |
How Could You Leave Us? | NF | |
The Girl You Lost to Cocaine | Sia | |
That Smell | Lynyrd Skynyrd | |
Lithium | Nirvana | |
Sober | Demi Lovato | |
Zombie | We As Human | |
You Don’t Get Me High Anymore | Three Days Grace | |
Girl with Golden Eyes | Sixx A.M. | |
God of Wine | Third Eye Blind | |
The A Team | Ed Sheeran | |
Chris Dolmeth | Hopsin | |
Down a Hole | Alice in Chains | |
Sober | Kelly Clarkson | |
The Needle Lies | Queensryche | |
It Don’t Matter | Rehab | |
Whiskey on My Breath | Love and Theft | |
Lost Love and Addiction | Hollohan | |
Dark Times | The Weeknd (featuring Ed Sheeran) | |
Habit | Pearl Jam | |
Bleeding Me | Metallica | |
Something to Remind You | Staind | |
Check In | Lecrae | |
Drugs or Me | Jimmy Eat World | |
Demons | Kenny Chesney | |
The More I Drink | Blake Shelton | |
Wine Colored Roses | George Jones | |
The Moonshiner | Uncle Tupelo | |
Sober | P!nk | |
Hate Me | Blue October | |
Life is Beautiful | Sixx AM | |
Save Me From Myself | Brian “Head” Welch | |
John Doe (feat. Priscilla) | B.o.B | |
Needle of Death | Bert Jansch | |
Say It Ain’t So | Weezer | |
Just As I Am | Brantley Gilbert | |
It Ain’t Me | Kygo & Selena Gomez | |
My Deliverer | Mandisa | |
Drugs Or Jesus | Tim McGraw | |
Gravity | A Perfect Circle | |
The Drugs Don’t Work | The Verve | |
Sam Stone | John Prine | |
One Day At A Time | Joe Walsh | |
Drinkin’ Problem | Midland | |
Your Glass House | Atmosphere | |
Down Where the Drunkards Roll | Richard and Linda Thompson | |
You Found Me | The Fray | |
Thrash Unreal | Against Me! | |
Starting Over | Macklemore and Ryan Lewis | |
Accidents Can Happen | Sixx:A.M. | |
Semi-Charmed Life | Third Eye Blind | |
Walk A Little Straighter, Daddy | Billy Cunningham | |
Chandelier | Sia | |
The Needle and the Damage Done | Neil Young | |
Wasted | Carrie Underwood | |
Drug Addiction | Colicchie | |
An Old Friend of Mine | Joe Nichols | |
The Real You | Three Days Grace | |
She Talks To Angels | The Black Crowes | |
Waiting Around to Die | Townes Van Zandt | |
Jane Says | Jane’s Addiction | |
That’s Why I’m Here | Kenny Chesney | |
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! That Cigarette | Tex Williams | |
Who I am Hates Who I’ve Been | Relient K | |
Gin Bottle Blues | Lightnin’ Hopkins | |
Recover | Natasha Bedingfield | |
Don’t Leave Home | Dido | |
Breaking the Habit | Linkin Park | |
Oxycontin Blues | Steve Earle | |
I Surrender | The Adverts | |
Slow Suicide | Scott Stapp | |
Heavy | Linkin Park | |
You’re Not My God | Keith Urban | |
Powder Blue | Elbow | |
HELP | Papa Roach | |
Save Me | Shinedown | |
Cheap Whiskey | Martina McBride | |
Wise Up | Aimee Mann | |
Hurt | Johnny Cash | |
Devil In a Bottle | Lynyrd Skynyrd | |
Old Friend | Hopsin | |
Captain Jack | Billy Joel | |
The Man I Was | Lucero | |
Little Rock | Collin Raye | |
Hey, You Got Drugs? | Tove Lo | |
Man On The Rocks | Mike Oldfield | |
S.O.B. | Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats | |
Moonshiner | Uncle Tupelo | |
Flowers | Chris Young | |
Wine Into Water | T. Graham Brown | |
Sober Saturday Night | Chris Young (featuring Vince Gill) | |
Changed | Rascal Flatts | |
Monkey | George Michael | |
Another Empty Bottle | Katy McAllister | |
Stone Cold Sober | Brantley Gilbert | |
Medicine | Biffy Clyro | |
Otherside | Macklemore (featuring Fences) | |
Recovery | James Arthur | |
Running To Stand Still | U2 | |
Mansions | NF | |
Some People Change | Montgomery Gentry | |
Song To Say Goodbye | Placebo | |
The Last Fight | Bullet for My Valentine | |
Don’t Wait for Me | Josh Garrels |