Recovery A Constant Challenge For Barry

Recovery A Constant Challenge For Barry: "Late one night in 1996, suspicious that Marion Barry was using drugs again, boxing promoter Rock Newman sat him down and told him that he should resign as D.C. mayor and focus on beating his addiction. Newman said Barry cried in his arms.

He remembers Barry telling him: 'I love you, man. I know I betrayed your friendship.' Barry agreed to leave town for a while and take a second stab at treatment. But he wouldn't give up politics. 'He felt if he wasn't the mayor, he wasn't nothing,' Newman said."