Note that Jimi Hendrix, by all accounts, was not a junkie. His death was as accidental as Heath Ledger's was, and involved barbituates (sleeping pills) taken after drinking. He was once arrested at an airport in Florida on trumped up heroin charges, but the case was dismissed by the judge and it's generally believed that those drugs were planted on him. Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, however, really were heroin addicts, by all accounts.

In any case, today's opiate addicts are not burnouts from rock bands. They are outwardly normal people who get their drugs from the doctor's office, not off the street. There is a fair amount of illegal heroin in the U.S., (via Afghanistan and Mexico) but the real opiate drug problem in the U.S. centers around prescription drugs, as this coroner reports on his blog:

"We always think of heroin as the real “bad guy” opiate of abuse and it is. It is associated with presentation to the ER with problems of various sorts, increased risk of various infectious diseases, suicide and death. SAMHSA estimates (and admits that it may be an underestimate) that nearly 400,000 folks used heroin in 2004 (most recently studied year), including about 120,000 first-time users.

But what is even more concerning to me, 11.2 million Americans used prescription opioids for “non-medical” purposes in 2003 (most recent SAMHSA data). They estimate that there are 4.4 million “current non-medical users” in this country. Talk about a real problem with huge numbers.

Certainly this agrees with what we see through our office. Death related to non-prescription use of prescription drugs outpaces the heroin deaths we see and we see our share of both."

It's also true that modern medicine would not exist as it is today without the opiate drugs. The whole point is that we need to stop treating drug abuse as a criminal problem, but rather as a public health problem. We also need to acknowledge that it's OK for people to take drugs in order to achieve the fleeting pleasures they offer. This is true for alcohol, for caffeine, and for tobacco - but not for any other drugs, such as cannabis, coca leaf or opium.

The solution is the same as for alcohol and tobacco: legalize, tax and regulate, and place severe restrictions on advertising, especially to kids (though that hasn't stopped the beer and cigarette companies, has it?).

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And that's saying something. I just finished "Is Cooking A Feminist Act?"

What a mindless rant against... well, the author is not exactly sure. Celebrities in general? Music he does not like? Sigmund Freud?

Let's attack the real enemy: Nikki Sixx. Who by the way is donating the money from this book to a shelter for runaway teens (he was a teenage runaway). Maybe he fails at writing an anti-drug book, but that was his intention. It's a fucking diary. He didn't write it for English majors like you to poo-poo on.

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Well. That certainly was a roundabout way of saying Nikki Sixx's book is sucktastic.

Why would you even need to pick up the book to know that?

Someone's obviously jonesing for romantic drug use cut with rock star strut.

It's all been done before.

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From the article:

Byron died without finding God or AA's "higher power" or groveling to the sanctimonious majority back home. In our time, perhaps only Hunter Thompson showed that sort of lifelong heretical courage.

Another recent social critic who also had quite a sense of humor, Bill Hicks, was unabashed about his drug use, defending the lifestyle thusly:

No, I don't do drugs anymore, either. But I'll tell you something about drugs. I used to do drugs, but I'll tell you something honestly about drugs, honestly, and I know it's not a very popular idea, you don't hear it very often anymore, but it is the truth: I had a great time doing drugs. Sorry. Never murdered anyone, never robbed anyone, never raped anyone, never beat anyone, never lost a job, a car, a house, a wife or kids, laughed my ass off, and went about my day.

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AlterNet needs to raise the bar here a little.

I read as far as the suggestion that smack has more cache, more real street cred, and somehow more class than coke.

Philadelphia has one of the highest murder rates in the country. A much higher figure, without benefit of any headlines, is deaths by overdose in this city and the surrounding suburbs... an outright epidemic.

Drugs are drugs. People do them, and then they grow out of that phase in their lives or they die. But don't work so hard to try to add some sort of justifying mystique to the one that is killing local kids around here by the hundreds, every year.

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No matter how you slice it, in my opinion anyways...The drugs that impair your judgment are no good. that definitely does include alcohol.. which I do use from time to time..Glorifying any drug use is counter productive to furthering change in society. I will take a great walk in the woods or having a great conversation any day over any sort of mind altering drugs. I like my mind and body and I want to keep it that way.

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Just wondering, if the book is this bad, why does anyone have to use over 5,000 words to trounce on it?

Also, I have a minor cavil. William Burroughs never published a book under that name. He used the initial of his middle name, Seward, so it should read William S. Burroughs.

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Are tobacco and alcohol, and they are legal. Why? Big money lobbyists, that's why. There is no comparison in the amount of deaths caused by illegal drugs.

Remember, while we're at it, that William Randolph Hearst, Mexican hater (we don't have those do we?) caused marijuana to be made illegal and it's been that way for a hundred years or so, yet there's no proof that it does anyone's health any harm. And hemp used to be among the most heavily used products in the world.

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Heroin is a poison and it should be clearly known as such.

Byron defaced the temple of poseiden in Greece, cutting his into a pillar there.
That's bad, irresponsible karma, doesn't sound like a mediator at all.

Both heroin and graffiti may profess a little rebellion, but really are acts self-degredation onto one's own soul.

You almost have to be a victim of some mind controll to do heroin or carve your initials in a 2500 yr old temple.

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I don't see how "having fun" serves as justification for potential harmful action, such as taking drugs. Consider, for example, a person who has taken a liking to thrilling activities. Sure, he may "have fun" playing Russian roulette, but that doesn't mean he's not an idiot for doing so.

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"Mtley Cre?"
"ClichEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE?"

At first I thought it was just a typo. After many repeats I decided it must be intentional. Maybe I just didn't read your article carefully enough to understand that you were being clever, but I didn't want to devote too much time to reading about Nikki Sixx. His band already cost me many hours of my life in the 80s as I sat through their craptacular videos while watching MTV and hoping they'd play a better band next.

I'm not surprised that a has-been rock star wrote a book, with help, about drugs and how lonely his partying lifestyle has left him. I'm just surprised this particular one merits an article this long. You're obviously familiar with drug-addled superstars who are much better writers, and you're also familiar with more talented bands like Husker Du. You've also seen Spinal Tap. Rather than devote so much of your time and words to Mr. Sixx, I would have simply borrowed from the infamous review of Spinal Tap's album "Shark Sandwich" and written the following two-line review of Mr. Sixx's book: "S**t Sandwich."

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for whom?

whatever the drug of choice, the effect of consumption past a certain point is, ultimately, the same: complete self-involvement and self-isolation, total disconnection from other people.

how is this 'fun'?

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Really, to claim that Sixx's book is so execrable and then spend three pages writing about the various ways is almost as self-indulgent as Sixx. Sure it might be a bad book, and sure he might be making money off the misplaced sympathy of others, but it happens. People buy Britney Spears records. They go see Miley Cyrus. New Kids on the Block were big. So what? Live and let live. And for those of us with no serious drug experiences, the taxonomy of harmfulness and/or moral acceptability of the drugs mentioned is really stupid. Geez, what garbage.

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SUCKS.

Why would this book be any different?

jdfu!

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I've never participated in the comments section here, but feel I must after reading this profoundly 'dull' article. The writer seems to have used three pages an his readers time to spew his hatred of celebrity, Los Angeles, cocaine and 80s hair metal in general - where's the substance? What's the point? We all know anything Nikki Sixx does isn't worthy of our attention - why drag us along for three pages just to tell us that? There's a brief touch on prohibition and legalizing drugs, but that too goes nowhere. The writer seems to think all problems would just up and disappear if we could legally sit around in opium dens and get high all day. Maybe his would, but the problems drugs cause would not. I'm for legalization, but it's not a solution to a problem, it's just taking a problem and making it more manageable. I've done a lot of drugs and can attest to the fact that yes they can be fun, but they, like all things, can be dangerous and harmful when over indulged in - and that goes for heroine just as much as anything else. By the way, Hunter Thompson used plenty of coke in his time, believe me, he even uses it on camera in a bio piece the BBC did of him in the late 70s/early 80s. Alternet.org please don't publish BS like this. We come here to learn a little something - the only thing I've learned today is that at least Nikki Sixx has a ghost writer to point a finger at while this writer only has himself.

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This article is SARANWRAPPED IN CRAP. S**T SANDWICH INDEED. As Mink Stole said in "Desperate Living", "Are you aware that you have just stolen a minute of my life?"

What I'd like to see from Alternet are articles about drugs relating to COINTELPRO and information that proves once and for all that "the man" uses drugs to control the masses and put down any kind of popular movements. Look at what happened to the Black Panthers. I did my share of drugs when I was younger and I still use my drugs of choice (alcohol, chocolate)but these days I take every opportunity to tell all the young people I know that if they buy into the drug scene, especially now, they are being made a big fat sucker by the man who is trying to stop them from being part of the solution.

Alternet, please! I don't pore over every single article every week, but I keep coming across these boring fluff pieces-this article could have perhaps been interesting if it was more than just a review- and used Sixx's book as a jumping off place. I'm really getting tired of this lowest common denominator type article from Alternet. I expect better. I can get low-brow bullcrap everywhere else.

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I have never posted a comment here before, but felt compelled to for the obvious reason.

This may be the worst article I've ever read on Alternet. The tone of the piece snarky, and childish. Reminds me of the sophmoric writing in Circus magazine.

Come now, you guys can do better than this thin tripe.

Sorry about my negative attitude guys, I guess I expected too much.

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Alternet has some really great stuff. It really does. But sometimes coming to this site is really annoying because you have to sift through all the drugs and sex articles. Maybe I am confused about what Alternet is about. I thought it could be seen as the news source for a political movement, or to several related political movements. The environment, fighting the war, corporate fraud and corruption, voter suppression. All these issues have to do with corporate control of government, and don't get reported because of corporate control of media. And I thought that black hole in the reporting of corporate media was what alternet was here to address. Maybe I am wrong.

But the drugs stories, the sex stories and especially the religion stories that are hostile and demeaning (as an agnostic I am not insulted myself, but I know lots of people on the correct side of the political issues who do get their feelings hurt and feel excluded because of this aggressive secularism.), all serve to divide and distract. For one thing focus on drugs (unless it is focus on the racist aspects of the drug war and how it is destroying low income communities) is just childish. Who gives a flying fuck about Nikki Six? Besides the people sitting in front of the TV watching MTV and VH1 for their pop culture fix that is.

It is worth thinking back to the civil rights and anti war movements of the sixties. They got associated with the counter-culture movement, the preffered rebellion of spoiled rich brats, and now you can't talk about protesting without being labelled a hippy. This focus on silliness just lets people stereotype you and write you off as another coddled, bourgeois limo liberal.

If I am wrong and alternet is not here to fight the central fight of our time, then please forgive me. I am not claiming there is zero use to some of these articles (this one maybe, but not all the drugs, sex and religion articles), but that the pull down the movements that matter.

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I find it a bit grotesque that a literary critic would find fault with a writer's choice of drug to abuse himself with. Just too weird. All druggie/alcoholic autobiographical tell-all books are self-serving crap anyway, regardless of where their proceeds are going. This is the strangest literary review I have ever read. No focus whatsoever. Like the writer was high on something.

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You're no Matt Taibbi.

Nice try.

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I have to admit some of the very best VOCALISTS/SINGERS I have ever heard in music have been hard-rockers and metalheads. But the addictions and tragedies that have plagued the genre are all too real and are cautionary tales that need to be told time and again.

I just finished Valerie Bertinelli's book [that included] her account of her ex-hubby Eddie Van Halen's alcoholism and cocaine abuse, which destroyed their 20-year marraige (A miracle in itself, especially for a show-biz couple). It can easily be told right alongside Sixx's accounts of his heroin abuse.

Let's not forget that it's not just the hard rockers and metal heads. Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, anyone?? Heroin destroyed Cobain, too (It definitely led to his either suicide or murder, depending on what story you wish to believe), and Love is barely sober at best.

Young people really need to read these books for their cautionary tales. Never mind the relevancy or unrelevancy of their subjects' talents.

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I have a few pointers for this cavalier, hateful little shit...err, "editor".

1.) Limit your writing to something you actually know something about. That would apparently rule out the following topics; Psychotherapy (One may debate the lasting merits of Freud's work, but to deny that it was a paradigm shift is friggin' dumb), Addiction (Have you ever known any actual addicts, or even done, & I mean done, any drugs? Or are your observations solely gleaned from required reading texts back in Prep School?), & finally, Literary Criticism (kinda have to be able to put together a cohesive series of thoughts to pull that one off).

2.) Make sure that when criticizing others, that you aren't guilty of identical failings. In this case that would preclude basing the bulk of your critique on your target's reliance on cliche (ignoring for the moment that drug addiction & recovery stories are by nature rather cliche- What'd you expect Nikki & Friends to do, invent a new vocabulary for pain & isolation?), when your whole article is nothing but a tired retread of the false concepts that Heroin is somehow heroic, & that Prohibition is solely to blame for its lethality (I'd ask some of my Heroin-addicted friends if they'd stop injecting & start smoking if it was legal, but unfortunately many of them are fucking dead, & the rest of them are way too busy procuring & using Heroin to read your joke of an article). While I'm on the topic, it may surprise you that the observation that an 80's Hair-Metal rock star is a poor writer is also, well, rather obvious.

3.) Quit writing articles about how incredibly stupid the entire population of the United States is (especially in comparison to yourself). After all, we are just too durn stupid to appreciate yer jeenyus. It's a tragic waste of your brilliance.

4.) Learn to include some measure of redeeming substance with your bile. A smidgen of humility or self-awareness (not "-importance", mind you) might be a good start. Your idols (Thompson, Tiabbi, Burroughs) had this. That's why they have had enduring careers. Blind arrogance, aimlessly applied & ungrounded in any human virtue, is ultimately just "dull". We're all bozos on this bus, but most of us have the decency to masturbate in private.

So, congratulations are due; you have, through consistency, dogged effort, & useless observation, joined the elite ranks of such Alternet-supported "writers" as Kathy Freston of "Stepford Born-Again Vegans for Prius!" infamy. Albeit, from the opposite end of the spectrum.

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... who know it. Then there are those (the masses) who are addicted to conforming to a sick culture - oblivious to the fact that they are addicts - to a deadly virus!

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This article is a joke. I am not a fan of Motley Crue but a friend of mine recommended this book to me and I picked it up. It was a great book that looked into the year in the life of a heroin addict. It was made up of his diary entries during that year and comments from the people around him at the time. It is really amazing to see and confirms what i have thought about many heroin addicts. That most have mental problems(depression, etc) and that is why they often turn to heroin to numb the pain. This critic doesn't know crap. It doesn't make drug use look glamourous at all. At the height of their fame this rock star spent many a night locked in his closet in his house.

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Judging by most of the comments here, you've rubbed some of his friends and fans the wrong way. Anyway, for what it's worth, not all Alternet readers have sticks up their asses and pretend they know more than they actually do. I thought it was a great read! Well done. Thank you.

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Byron the most talented poet? Hah, even his friend Shelley was ten times the poet he was.

William S. Burroughs the best practitioner of the Beats? Better than Kerouac and Ginsberg? Really??

Husker Du is talented? Could have fooled me.

Hunter S. Thompson didn't brag about his drug use? Seriously?? "Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas" was essentially a long brazen brag about how much drugs he and his friend once did and the hilarity that ensued.

Ay yi yi.

At least you got one thing right...I'm still trying to forget Motley Crue ever existed (and I refuse to write "Motley Crue" with the ridiculous dots over the vowels.)

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first of all, in LA.... cocaine is easier to get than candy, and very popular - even though it's probably the most boring drug ever. also, in LA, heroin is distributed as "black tar", which is really, really impure (on average, 15%)... as compared to, say, newark and camden, nj (roughly 90-95% pure on average, and powder, instead of the aforementioned injectable tar)- and the cities next to them (new york and philadelphia) that get slightly less pure substance, but still in powder form... "higher class" people generally don't inject drugs (although i've seen a few exceptions). this is why new york has a higher incidence of wealthier street opioid users than los angeles.

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This article sucked donkey balls on many levels... but fuck Dolan and his bash on Motely Crue. Hey, I like Husker Du too but the condescending attitude placed on a great American band (bring it on if you want but if your head doesn't rock when you here Dr. Feelgood then you need some help) just for the sake trying to give any creedence to his faulty arguments in this article is a low blow. Big deal if Niki is selling out his rock and roll lifestyle for a few bucks now... his choice, and fuck if I'm wasting any money buying it. He and Jose Conseco should start their own book club or something.

But saying they are a band we are all still trying to forget pissed me off. Screw you and your "god on high" attitude about what is cool or not. Try writing about something that matters next time. Please.

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For serious drug people there are two ways to go: up with some variety of speed, or down with some kind of opiate.

Serious? What is this love affair we have with narcotics all about? Sure, I'm all for the legalization of drugs (too many people in prison for nonsense behavior and drug use), but why do we always try to glamorize it?

A couple of years ago my brother had his last three teeth yanked from his mouth. His other teeth fell out from constant use of meth. Serious drug people? When have drug people been serious about anything but keeping their buzz?

I guess he was serious when he stole from family and friends. I guess he was serious when he got his son for weekends and then left him with me or my mother because he was out looking for more meth. I guess he was serious when he'd borrow a vehicle for a week and forgot where he parked it. I guess he was serious when he forgot to go to work and expected everyone to pay his bills. I guess he was serious when we received calls asking for bail money. I guess he was serious when he crashed on someone's couch for a week or two.

I don't know if he ever used heroin. At this point I don't care, but the stories I've been told by people who did or had loved ones who did aren't any better than his.

When it comes to drug use, American's have their heads up their asses.

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mostly seem to have gotten way off track. This piece was hilarious. Don't amerikans understand good writing anymore?

Or maybe they're just clueless. Anyone who lived through the late sixties remembers fondly doing drugs -- and no, we didn't rob, steal, or cheat, anyone to get them. Maybe because then they were virtually free.

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I could care less about motley crew. They suck, but there was some good tidbits in the article like:

"Of course injected street heroin has a terrible potential for fatal overdoses, because you don't know the purity of the dose until it's already in your bloodstream. What no one seems to realize is that this too is a side effect of Prohibition."

Yep, legalize all drugs with accurate weights and potencies and then let the idiots overdose if they want. That might do wonders to improve the gene pool. And then the destruction would likely be more localized to the individual instead of spreading the chaos.

"Conversely, in countries like Iran which prohibit that allegedly safe, mainstream drug, alcohol, many users die or go blind from ingesting street booze laced with the usual variety of poisons. Prohibition kills far more people than "drugs."

Bingo! Same thing was happening in the US during prohibition. Prohibition has made me suffer far more than drugs ever would. I would have smoked a little grass here and there with little detriment but a fake scarcity would lead towards alcohol, which caused me problems I never would have known.

The article also mentions drugs are fun. Why do people seem to like to leave out the fact that many drugs cause euphoria. What's wrong with euphoria?

eu·pho·ri·a (yōō-fôr'ē-ə, -fōr'-)
n. A feeling of great happiness or well-being.

And last but not least, moderation is the key. If Sixx wasn't such a stupid piece of shit, he could have partaken a little dope here and there and not suffered too greatly but he's like a large percentage of people. They're stupid and have little to no self control.

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Coke is not glamorous.
Husker who?

Nuff time wasted on this bunk.

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I've never read such an elitist book review before!

And, getting mad because heroin is demonized compared to coke? Good lord, aren't there REAL things to get angry about?

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Great article full of great insights. Kudos to Dollan.

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and neither is heroin

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A terribly-written article about bad writing! Further, in addition to lacking a clear thesis, the argument proceeds through ad hominem attacks, a caricature of cocaine and an overly-sympathetic view of heroin.

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These celebrity testimonials are particularly insidious and disingenous, because they surreptitiously encourage self-destructive behavior among young fans, who see the rich, famous person thriving, in spite of excesses. Any kid can read about the titanic quantities of drugs Nikki Sixx ingested, and then figure that he'll be fine if he just sticks to a fraction of that amount. Some people have astonishing constitutions (think Keith Richards); others are just lucky to have enough money to keep paying for rehab and lawyers (even after they've paid off their dealers) - we need honest, realistic education (not the DARE/zero-tolerance approach), accompanied by sane laws and universal access to treatment

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You reach for a respectable 80's band and come back with Husker Du?

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but the reviewer spent too much time bashing the book and drawing distinctions between coke and smack. i hate myself for even reading it. i need to remind myself never to read anything about drugs on Alternet again because so many posters have hhalf baked insights.

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US Govt. figures point to a 15% alcoholism rate.
This makes for over 40 million people!
Ask your local Cop, any Cop, Hospital Worker, Social Worker, Criminal Justice worker - what substance does the most harm in society today????
Our old friend the Bottle and the accompanying ravages ensure that no Government is willing to decriminalise any further recreational substances - their hands are full with this particular one.

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