Hunter Biden details lifelong addiction struggle in memoir

Hunter Biden, centre, watches on at his father Joe’s presidential inauguration in January (Carolyn Kaster/AP)

President Joe Biden’s son Hunter has detailed his lifelong struggle with alcoholism and drug abuse in a new memoir.

Mr Biden, 51, wrote that “in the last five years alone, my two-decades-long marriage has dissolved, guns have been put in my face, and at one point I dropped clean off the grid, living in $59-a-night Super 8 motels off I-95 while scaring my family even more than myself”.