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River
Pheonix
Owned the Viper Rooms nightclub with Johnny
Depp. Died of an overdose after taking a speedball (heroin and cocaine
mix). |
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William
Borroughs
William Burroughs' extraordinary novel, Junky,
details his addiction to the drug and the lifestyle he led in pursuit
of it. It is, he says, "the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk
necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy" |
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King
George V
Not a user per se, but was euthanised
with opiates. In fact, a mixture of opium and cocaine did it for the
father of our Queen. |
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Thomas
De Quincey
Made a career out of his opium habit, wrote
the florid Confessions of an English Opium Eater and had an
irrational hatred of the Chinese who populated his dreams. |
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Charlie
Parker
Charlie Parker was a virtuoso alto saxophonist
who hit New York aged 20. He created the modern jazz sound, veered
back and forth between heroin and alcohol addiction, and was dead
by the age of 34. The doctor who declared him dead estimated his age
to be between 50 and 60 years old. |
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