Sordid details of Ms Amy final hours claim she bought cocktails of narcotics including cocaine, ecstasy and ketamine. Buying drugs from a dealer, late Friday. Some details claim she has been drinking heavily, dangerously with a lethal concoction of drugs and alcohol. Amy, who was said to have suffered from emphysema, a disease of the lungs that causes shortness of breath died at 27 years. She was a talented star with huge potentials but her life has been stolen and she died with dreams, we would never know about. These reports could have their disparity from what really happened but we all know, Amy battled with drugs and alcohol.
Like Amy, other celebrities have passed at 27, which I hear is called the 27club. On the list are Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain and Rolling Stones’ Brian Jones. What do you know? It is really sad what drugs can do and I wonder why people never keep off drugs. People make huge money from illegal drug sales on street corners, high class bars, joints and just anywhere both in the ghettos and the highbrow areas. Drugs like human trafficking are huge business and the sad thing is these traffickers forget that someone close to them could be the addict. In Hollywood, we have watched over the years how drugs have ended people’s lives, wrecked their careers and even here in Nigeria, it is no different. Many Nigerian celebrities have admitted to tasting coke and claim to be clean, while others still have not gotten over it. It is a way of life and in some quarters, it is classy. Some type of music, their lyrics can induce a young person who is lost to find solace in addiction to these substances.
Some people on the list of drug overdose or drug abuse or addiction will leave you wondering, how they even got themselves there but it is not to be judgemental but to open our eyes to how dangerous drugs can be. Some people get addicted for different reason. Some get hooked to fill the emptiness they experience at a point in their lives at a point, suppress their depression (they suppose so) or because their friends are doing it (peer pressure). The reasons vary but in the end it has no justification, it only ruins.
1.Anna Nicole Smith: Former playboy model, sex symbol, actress, TV personality, found dead with a lethal combination of chloral hydrate and various benzodiazepines in her system on Feb 8, 2007.
2.Sid Vicious: The bassist of the sex pistols and an inductee of the rock and roll hall of fame. Was found dead on Feb 1, 1979 in his post-bail party with an overdose of heroin.
3.Marilyn Monroe: It has been said to be probable suicide. She was found death with an overdose of barbiturates.
5.Brittany Murphy: said to have fainted in her shower.
6.Heath Ledger: Accidental overdose and was not proven to be addiction even though it was speculated.
7.John Belushi: Died 1982 after injecting herself with Speedball (a mixture of cocaine and heroin).
8.River Phoenix: Died of heroin overdose in the presence of his younger brother Joaquin.
10.Judy Garland: Died in 1969 from an overdose of barbiturates.
11.Elvis Presley: Overdosing on prescription drugsdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
