(CBS Sunday Morning)
"The first time I tried the cocaine, unfortunately, it was love at the first sniff," Gooden said. "My problem [has] always been not just when things are bad, I turn to drugs and alcohol, but when things are good, I turn to drugs and alcohol."
Things were very good for Gooden and the Mets when they won the World Series in 1986. "It was like the ultimate dream for any player," he said. "It should be the happiest day of my life. And it was. But then three hours later, turned to the worst day of my life.
" In his new book, "Doc: A Memoir," he writes that he retreated to a Long Island flophouse to celebrate the win with some cocaine. He partied so much that he never even made the victory parade.
"Watching that on TV with a bunch of strangers, you know, you're doin' all the drugs you can possibly do. You can't get high anymore. Now it's just totally, you know, depressed," Gooden said.
"You don't know how it got to that point." While playing baseball was his job, getting high was his vocation.
Read more of Michelle Miller's interview with Dwight Gooden here
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