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What is this? I hadn't heard about that...

I hadn't either so I loooked it up and found:

Drugs, not deities Rick Warren's book on finding the meaning of life through God, "The Purpose Driven Life," has been a New York Times bestseller for 151 weeks and counting. It got some unsolicited press in March when 27-year-old Ashley Smith told police investigators that she was released as the hostage of Brian Nichols - the man suspected to have killed four people during a shooting rampage in an Atlanta courthouse - by talking to him about her faith and reading passages from Warren's book aloud. However, when Smith did what anyone in her situation would do - write a book about her ordeal and go on Oprah to promote it - she revealed that giving Nichols methamphetamine may have been more instrumental in her liberation than anything he garnered from Warren's book. Smith told Oprah (but not the police investigators) that since she wasn't able to provide Nichols with the marijuana he requested during the seven hours he held her captive, she instead offered him some crystal meth from her stash. Truly, though, the night was a blessing threefold: Smith said it led her to the realization that she was a drug addict. Nichols discovered for the first time the euphoria of snorting a highly volatile, toxic substance. And sales for "The Purpose Driven Life" increased substantially. Amen. aspentimes