According to drug users, drugs are the best “medicine”. A drug user may say, “They can make you happy, release you from your problems. You can even fly away…and feel like you’re in “heaven”. Victims of drugs abuse are too many to count. Some can be healed but others can’t survive. To commemorate World Drug Addiction Day on June 26, we’d like to remind you that you get nothing from drugs. What these drugs do is simply ruin your life. Want some proof? Below are some examples.
- River Phoenix, 23 year-old motion picture star died of a drug overdose during a Halloween “party” in 1993. blood tests from the autopsy verified the presence of lethal levels of heroin, cocaine, alcohol, and valium in his blood at time of death. About a year prior to his death, he starred in the feature film, “My Own Private Idaho”, in which he depicted a heroin-using nomadic street hustler.
- Jimi Hendrix, 27 year-old vocalist and guitarist, died of a barbiturate overdose within weeks of Janis Joplin in 1970. He was a heavy heroin user and also died near the peak of his career after having performed at Woodstock.
- Kurt Cobain, 27 year-old rock music star, died from self-inflicted gunshot wound, one week after nearly dying from a heroin overdose in 1994. As one of the founders of the “Grunge rock” genre, Cobain was the lead vocalist for the Seattle-based band, Nirvana, and husband of singer/actress Courtney Love.
- Jonathan Melvoin, was the keyboardist for the band Smashing Pumpkins. He died on July 12, 1996 at the age of 34 because of heroin overdose. He died in the presence of Pumpkins drummer, Jimmy Chamberlin, who was arrested on a misdemeanor drug possession charge.
- In 1994, the bassist of a Grunge rock band, Hole, Kristen Pfaff also died because of heroin overdose. She was 27 at that time.
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