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\"It's a whole new depth of love that I never even realized I had within me,\" he said. \"Also, you see your parents in a little bit of a different light, right, because now you can really relate with them and start to see some of the things that they were going through, so it's a whole new level of respect for your parents.\"

For Cameron Douglas, now was the perfect moment in our country's history to shed more light on addiction with his memoir.

\"We're in an opioid epidemic. This country is drowning in addiction,\" he said.

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\"I can't go back and change some of the pain and wreckage that I've caused, but what I can do is try to take that and make it useful,\" he explained. \"That was the impetus for this book and that's what I hope it ends up doing -- I hope it ends up helping people.\"

\"Long Way Home\" is available now wherever books are sold.

Watch the Diane Sawyer interview with Cameron and Michael Douglas here.

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