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What was something that happened during his troubled times?
Simon announced her separation from James Taylor in September 1981
What other troubles did he have in during his troubled times besides the divorce?
At the time, James Taylor was living on West End Avenue in Manhattan and on a methadone maintenance program to cure him of his drug addiction.
Did the methadone program James Taylor was on work?
Over the course of four months starting in September 1983, James Taylor discontinued methadone and overcame his heroin habit.

Question: What was his new beginnings?
Self-contained rewrite: What was James Taylor's new beginnings?