article: How Philip Seymour Hoffman relapsed
http://www.tmz.com/2014/02/06/philip-seymour-hoffman-the-master-heroin-alcohol-addiction/Hoffman had been sober for 23 years prior to shooting "The Master" -- but during a wrap party in 2012, the actor succumbed to temptation ... and celebrated the movie with a drink ... which quickly became a couple of drinks.
Hoffman acknowledged to confidants ... the drinks opened the floodgates. Addictions experts all say one drink can destroy an addict's life ... and that seems to be what happened here.
Sources tell us Hoffman didn't begin experimenting with heroin until 2013, after he had already fully fallen off the wagon. We're told he had long been curious about the drug.
If this is true, this is very sad.
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I went to a website looking for information to help a friend quit smoking, and reading some articles made me realize *I* had never really quit smoking - sure I had quit buying them, and liberally chewed on nic gum - but I'd bum one on the rare occasion I was around smokers, and sneak one if I had a drink. I realized I need to go the NOPE route - NOT ONE PUFF EVER. It's the only way for me to be a non-smoker and truly nicotine-free. It's been years but I still have dreams where that nicodemon rears its ugly head.
I feel so badly for Mr. Hoffman's friends and loved ones. You always like to think that the rich and famous are leading fabulous lives but sometimes it simply isn't the case........addiction and depression and anxiety can still ruin you - if you get clean you have to be vigilantly on-guard and have great support. 
in this film he is a heroin addict who has just taken a hit and what he says - in retrospect I wonder if he was identifying with his lines
