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Actors, Actresses, Models, and Directors
- Bridgette
Andersen, 1980s/90s child actress (deceased) [1][2]
- John
Belushi, actor and comedian (deceased) [3]
- Gia
Carangi, fashion model (deceased) [4]
- Montgomery
Clift, actor (deceased); Montgomery Clift: A Biography ISBN
0-7864-1432-4
- Robert
Downey Jr., actor [5]
- Jeanne
Eagels, silent film actress (deceased) [6][7]
- Chris
Farley, actor and comedian (deceased) [8]
- Mike
Hammett, 1960s-70s child actor, "Another
World" [9]
- Artie
Lange, actor, radio personality
- Béla
Lugosi, actor (deceased) [10]
- Natasha
Lyonne, actress [11]
- Jason
Mewes, actor [12]
- Robert
Pastorelli, actor (deceased) [13]
- Matthew
Perry, actor [14]
- Dana
Plato, actress (deceased) [15]
- River
Phoenix, actor (deceased) [16]
- Glenn
Quinn, actor (deceased) [17]
- Wallace
Reid, silent film actor (deceased) [18]
- Alma
Rubens, silent film actress (deceased) [19]
- Christian
Slater, actor [20]
Writers, Poets, and Journalists
- Charles
Baudelaire, poet/writer of "Les
Fleurs du mal" among many other works (deceased) [21]
- Elizabeth
Barrett Browning, poet (deceased) [22]
- William
S. Burroughs, writer of "Naked
Lunch" among many other works; drug culture and early cyberculture
icon (deceased) [23]
- Samuel
Taylor Coleridge, poet/writer of "The
Rime of the Ancient Mariner" among others (deceased) [24]
- Sigmund
Freud, pioneer of psychology,
wrote The
Cocaine Papers during his cocaine experimentation.
(deceased)
- Lucy
Grealy, poet/writer of "Autobiography of a Face" (deceased) [25]
- Aldous
Huxley, writer of "Brave
New World," "The
Doors of Perception," and others (deceased) [26]
- Denis
Johnson, writer of the series of short stories "Jesus'
Son" among many other works of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. [27]
- Anna
Kavan, A writer who named herself after a character in one of her
books.(died of natural causes at 67)[28]
- Patrick
K. Kroupa, writer and hacker [29]
- Rush
Limbaugh, American radio
talk show host.
- Thomas
de Quincey, writer of "Confessions
of an English Opium Eater" (deceased) [30]
- Hubert
Selby Jr., writer of "Requiem
for a Dream" among others (deceased) [31]
- Will
Self, writer, journalist, broadcaster [32]
Singers & Musicians
- Steven
Adler, former Guns
N' Roses drummer (near-fatal overdose) [33]
- GG
Allin, punk rock singer (deceased) [34]
- Duane
Allman, founding member of The
Allman Brothers Band and member of Derek
and the Dominoes (deceased)
- Gregg
Allman, founding member of and lead singer for The
Allman Brothers Band [35]
- Brett
Anderson, Suede/Tears frontman [36]
- Chet
Baker, Jazz trumpeter whose addiction is discussed at length in
the biography Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker.[37][38]
- Ginger
Baker, drummer for Cream and Blind
Faith [39]
- Tommy
Bolin, guitarist for Deep
Purple (deceased) [40]
- David
Bowie, actor and singer [41]
- Ray
Charles, so stated in his autobiography Brother Ray: Ray Charles'
Own Story ISBN
0-306-81335-1 (deceased)
- Jimmy
Chamberlin, Smashing
Pumpkins/Zwan drummer [42]
- Eric
Clapton, guitarist and prominent rock-and-roll figure since the
mid-1960s [43]
- Kurt
Cobain, Nirvana frontman
(deceased) [44]
- Brian
Cole, bassist and vocalist for The
Association (deceased) [45]
- Natalie
Cole, singer, according to VH1 Behind The Music
- Darby
Crash, founding member of The
Germs (deceased) [46]
- David
Crosby, founding member of Crosby,
Stills, and Nash/Crosby,
Stills, Nash and Young [47]
- Robbin
Crosby, Ratt lead
guitarist (deceased) [48]
- Miles
Davis, jazz trumpeter and bandleader (deceased) [49]
- Pete
Doherty, frontman of the bands The
Libertines and Babyshambles [50]
- Steve
Earle, country-western singer and guitarist [51]
- Howie
Epstein, bassist for Tom
Petty and the Heartbreakers (deceased) [52]
- Pete
Farndon, Pretenders bassist
(deceased) [53]
- John
Frusciante, former and current Red
Hot Chili Peppers guitarist; also has a side solo career [54]
- Dave
Gahan, frontman for Depeche
Mode (near-fatal overdose)[55]
- Jerry
Garcia, Grateful Dead frontman and guitarist (deceased)[56]
- Leif
Garrett, child actor and pop musician popular in the mid-1970s [57]
- Boy
George (born George Alan O'Dowd), former Culture
Club frontman [58]
- Keith
Godchaux, keyboardist for The
Grateful Dead (deceased)
- Carlos
Gomes, Brazilian romantic composer (deceased) [59]
- Brett
Gurewitz, Bad
Religion guitarist and founder of Epitaph
Records
- Hampton
Hawes, jazz pianist who self-described as such, after cleaning
up, in his autobiography.[60]
- Billie
Holiday, jazz singer (deceased) [61]
- Shannon
Hoon, Blind
Melon frontman (deceased) [62]
- Janis
Joplin, singer (deceased) [63]
- Alain
Jourgensen, Ministry/Revolting
Cocks frontman and renowned addict to several different drugs [64]
- John
Kahn, bass player, Jerry
Garcia Band (deceased)
- Anthony
Kiedis, Red
Hot Chili Peppers vocalist [65]
- Mark
Lanegan, Screaming
Trees frontman [66]
- Tommy
Lee, drummer for Mötley
Crüe [67]
- Courtney
Love, rock musician and actress, according to BBC's
2006 documentary "The Return of Courtney Love"
- Frankie
Lymon, The
Teenagers frontman (deceased) [68]
- Phil
Lynott, frontman for Thin
Lizzy (deceased) [69]
- Jimmy
McCulloch, Wings guitarist
(deceased) [70]
- Vaughn
Meader, bluegrass musician and comedian (deceased) [71]
- Dave
Mustaine, Megadeth frontman [72]
- Brent
Mydland, keyboardist for The
Grateful Dead (deceased)
- Dave
Navarro, guitarist for Jane's
Addiction and later the Red
Hot Chili Peppers
- Fats
Navarro, jazz trumpeter.[73]
- Chuck
Negron, Three
Dog Night frontman, battled addiction to heroin for
over 30 years [74]
- Fred
Neil, famed blues/jazzman (deceased) [75]
- Nico,
1960s-70s singer with several bands, most remembered for her work with The
Velvet Underground (deceased) [76]
- Bradley
Nowell, Sublime frontman
(deceased) [77]
- Anita
O'Day, jazz singer [78]
- Jimmy
Page, lead guitarist for Led
Zeppelin and later for Page
and Plant [79]
- Charlie
Parker, jazz saxophonist (deceased) [80][81]
- Art
Pepper, jazz musician (deceased)
- Joe
Perry, lead guitarist for Aerosmith [82]
- John
Phillips, The
Mamas & The Papas frontman (deceased) [83]
- Iggy
Pop, Iggy
and the Stooges frontman; also had a successful solo career, and
is considered by many to be the prototypical punk
rocker [84]
- Elvis
Presley, singer and guitarist, addicted to Dilaudid during
his later years (deceased) [85]
- Dee
Dee Ramone (born Douglas Glen Colvin), Ramones bassist
(deceased) [86]
- Lou
Reed, frontman and guitarist for The
Velvet Underground, later a successful solo artist [87]
- Trent
Reznor, Nine
Inch Nails frontman/conceptualizer [88]
- Keith
Richards, The
Rolling Stones lead guitarist, renowned multi-addict [89]
- Axl
Rose, Guns
N' Roses frontman [90]
- Andy
Rourke, The
Smiths bassist, fired briefly due to addiction [91]
- Judee
Sill, addicted to heroin before her career, but died of a cocaine
overdose.[92]
- Nikki
Sixx, Mötley
Crüe bassist (near-fatal overdose) [93]
- Slash,
former Guns
N' Roses/Slash's
Snakepit/Velvet
Revolver guitarist [94]
- Hillel
Slovak, Red
Hot Chili Peppers guitarist (deceased) [95]
- Layne
Staley, Alice
In Chains frontman (deceased) [96]
- James
Taylor, vocalist and guitarist [97]
- Pete
Townshend, frontman and guitarist for The
Who [98]
- Steven
Tyler, lead singer for Aerosmith [99]
- Sid
Vicious, bassist for The
Sex Pistols (deceased) [100]
- Charlie
Watts, Rolling
Stones drummer, for a brief period in the 1980s [101]
- Scott
Weiland, Stone
Temple Pilots and Velvet
Revolver frontman [102]
- Danny
Whitten, rock musician from Crazy
Horse (deceased) [103]
- Al
Wilson, vocalist for Canned
Heat [104]
- Johnny
Winter, blues musician [105]
- Andrew
Wood, Mother
Love Bone frontman (deceased) [106]
Other Celebrities & Public Figures
- Lenny
Bruce, comedian (deceased) [107]
- George
Carlin, comedian [108]
- Pamela
Courson, common-law wife of Jim
Morrison (deceased) [109]
- Aleister
Crowley, occultist and adventurer (deceased) [110]
- Wrote The Fountain of Hyacinth as a diary documenting
his hard-drug addiction [111]
- Brett
Favre, American
football quarterback, addicted to pain killers [112]
- William
Halsted, known as the "father of modern surgery"; associated with Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore,
Maryland (deceased) [113]
- Domino
Harvey, fashion model-turned-bounty
hunter (deceased) [114]
- Howard
Hughes , aviator, film producer/director, multi-business tycoon,
billionaire (deceased) [115]
- Robert
Kennedy, Jr., lawyer, son of Robert
F. Kennedy [116]
- SaRenna
Lee, porn star and big bust model [117]
- Dr.
John S. Pemberton, chemist, inventor of Coca-Cola (deceased) [118]
- Edie
Sedgwick, socialite friend of Andy
Warhol (deceased) [119]
- Nancy
Spungen, prostitute/groupie, girlfriend of The
Sex Pistols' Sid
Vicious (deceased) [120]
- Brandon
Novak, skateboarder/signed by Tony
Hawk, close friend of Bam
Margera, tv star, radio personality
Politicians
References and Footnotes
- Maser, Werner Hermann Göring. Hitlers janusköpfiger
Paladin. Die politische Biographie (German language)
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