Dani Amatriain and his relationship with the drug demon: “It robs you of everything, it leaves your economy at zero and it destroys you”

The seduction arts of the evil kingdom are very attractive and in this other dimension the devil acts as the supreme deceiver, convincing people that they are in a delicate situation and that, due to various other circumstances, entered with greater or lesser fortune on the evil side Lou Reed. One of these people is Dani Amatriain (58 years old), former motorcycle racer and manager, who achieved success in both fields and fell off the cliff after getting hooked on drugs.

Despite falling several times and being robbed of his machine, Dani almost miraculously saw the light again after surviving an experience, he and his loved ones, that left scars, and perfected- he summarized in his biography. ‘My life, from 300 to 0 km per hour, back from the abyss…‘, a book highly recommended for those who have been tempted by the evil arts of dependency and just for those who are going through a moment of difficulty. “The title of the biography sums it all up. As soon as I started writing, I hit rock bottom. The real work comes out of this. It is not easy and the way I have developed myself so far and I still believe that I have room for improvement and to achieve new challenges, all and the priorities in life are very different from what I have experienced a few years ago. When you are very high or very well positioned in the world where I am, the motor world, when you come out of an addiction like I did, you see everything from a different perspective. Getting out of addiction is not easy, no one tells you how,” Amatriain, who came to Motorcycle World Championship in 1987, where he competed in 500cc and 250cc, in addition to being European Superbike champion, a role he later changed to manager, coaching the races of top riders such as Emilio Alzamora, the Espargaró brothers, Pol and Aleix, or Jorge Lorenzo.

The ways of the Lord are as mysterious as the path of the wind, and this born-again Barcelonan motorcycle enthusiast has been swept away by a drug storm. He didn’t fall into their traps when he competed, “but when I stopped competing I started trying drugs for fun and it’s a very dangerous thing. You think you have it under control, but it’s never under control and it comes the time you think you can live here, which I call the devil. The devil takes everything and starts to destroy everything. You make small mistakes and in the end there comes a moment when you have money and you say in yourself that all you want is to be with the devil, who is in charge of your loss of everything, to leave your economy at zero until it destroys you ”.

Until a day came when he said enough was enough, a day when he was underground and trying to hold on as much as he could to try to get out of the hole, which he found in his autobiographical book “the best therapeutic process I could do for myself and I saw it clearly about four or five years ago. I had several relapses and my mother’s death two years ago also affected me something that made me stronger and see that I should take a different path in life. There will come a time when I will ask myself what I am doing in my life. I compare it to people in a therapeutic environment, they excite me and tell me that I can do a great job in this field. Throughout the process, I went through many moments of sadness, where you hurt your closest environment, friends and family, and sadness is led me to say that it was good that I shared my experience, that I opened up and told everything that happened. to me I have a therapeutic program that consists of eight steps and it’s about sharing what happened to me with people who need it and helping them,” no matter how deep they fall, as when he, admitted to a center, was told. who contracted HIV. “It was very difficult,” he remembers.

And that is how Amatriain discovered his current vocation as a therapist, how he started him BASI business project for the purposes of unity hand in hand with his wife Margarita, and his current connection with Foundation Fight Infections who rules andl Doctor Bonaventura Clotet.

Today, his life has nothing to do with what made him famous in the world of motorsport. He follows current events in the world of motorcycles from afar, comments on MotoGP news from his YouTube channel and begins to guide the career of a young rider from Andalusia. Miguel Ángel González Martínwhich certainly through his motorcycle art raised the spirit of Dani himself, who when asked if he would return to the MotoGP bandwagon as a manager replied: “As long as there are people who need me on a therapeutic level, it has gone to my head for anything. I got married two years ago and still haven’t enjoyed life as a couple. My husband has helped me a lot and spending time with him is a It’s a good thing that I’ve never experienced before. Not having him by my side is something that’s hard to imagine.”

And in the end, love always triumphs over evil.