Musicians and Drug Addiction Treatment

The number "27" carries a lot of weight with it for musicians. It is haunted by the ghosts of the highly influential artists that were respected for their leading standards in music and the world. These people made changes, paved new roads, pointed in new directions and furthered the ideas of music for everyone. But new, powerful ideas and an early death at age 27 aren’t the only things these musicians have in common. Each of them was on hard drugs and/or prescription drugs and died because of them.

Jim Morrison of The Doors – died of a heroin overdose after drinking heavily, Janis Joplin – heroin overdose, Jimi Hendrix – had a large drug history as it was and ended up suffocating in his own vomit after taking 9 strong sleeping pills, Kurt Cobain – vast amounts of street drugs and Ritalin since age 13, and just recently, Jeremy Michael Ward of The Mars Volta – heroin overdose. These profound musicians along with many, many others make up the list of deaths at the young age of 27. They all had a record of drug use or abuse and ended their lives through the hands of the drugs. Maybe a drug rehab in California would have helped.

Death of a body is inevitable, but drug abuse only hastens it. It should be seen by the examples set by these profound artists that it only led to their demise. And their lives weren’t glamorous rock star lives. They were living penny to penny to pay for the drugs (prescription or not) and/or alcohol they were addicted to and they weren’t truly happy at all! If this sounds like you or someone you know, there’s no better time to start on a road toward survival than right NOW. There are long term drug rehab programs that use holistic means to get you back on your feet, happy and really living life! Don’t waste any more of your happiness on an artificial "high". Get yourself or that person real, life-saving help from a drug rehab program that works!