The Top 10 Songs About Addiction
…“Sweet Child O Mine,” and “Paradise City” is also a song about heroin. “Dancing with Mr. Brownstone,” as heard in the chorus, is shooting heroin. In the lyrics, Axl Rose…
…“Sweet Child O Mine,” and “Paradise City” is also a song about heroin. “Dancing with Mr. Brownstone,” as heard in the chorus, is shooting heroin. In the lyrics, Axl Rose…
Alcohol and drugs are featured prominently in many movies because they make for sexy storylines. From prescription-drug thievery to heroin overdoses, these films haven’t shied away from the darkest of…
…1973, the frontman became a hermit, drinking to excess and experimenting with heroin in addition to his other drugs. In a manic moment, sometime in 1974, Wilson interrupted a set…
…While drummer Lars Ulrich had a cocaine problem until 2008, frontman James Hetfield never touched coke or heroin. Alcohol was his drug of choice. But while his bandmates cooled off…
…are countless extraordinary stories of recovery out there. Would you like to be featured in The Eccentrics? Can you top Ethan, the Harvard-educated heroin junkie? Or Kelly, the method-acting meth…
…depression and alcoholism. Edgar Allan Poe was a bipolar alcoholic. So was Vincent Van Gogh. Kurt Cobain could’ve taken lithium for his bipolar disorder, but he chose heroin instead. Amy…
…con artist,” says Jason, who was severely addicted to crack and heroin at the time he was executing this con. “There was a one minute speech… I’m the vice president…
…known that Jimi did copious amounts of drugs including LSD, marijuana, cocaine, amphetamines, and heroin. “Well I think I’ll go and turn myself off and go on down / All…
Illustration by Ana Mouriño Alcohol. Heroin. Cocaine. Crack Cocaine. Ecstasy. Ketamine. These were all of Amy Winehouse’s drugs of choice. She took them to excess, therefore rendering her Lithium treatment…
Ethan is a thirtysomething Harvard-educated heroin junkie. While he is sober and stable now, he wasn’t always. Here is an excerpt from the forthcoming book The Eccentrics in which he…