FORT EDWARD, N.Y. — Trey Anastasio, frontman for the rock band Phish, has returned to a New York drug court to offer encouragement to those afflicted with the same addictions he has battled.

Anastasio spoke for nearly 30 minutes Wednesday in Washington County Felony Drug Court, to which he was sentenced in 2008. Two years earlier, police found heroin and prescription painkillers in his vehicle during a traffic stop near the Vermont border.

The Post-Star of Glens Falls reported the musician told a packed courtroom that the county’s drug rehabilitation program put him on the road to nearly a decade of sobriety.