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Burroughs ended 15 years of heroin addiction by taking apomorphine and went on to write his first book Junky, published in 1953, about his years as an addict...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Writer, Beat Icon Burroughs Dead at 83 | 8/8/1997 | See Source »

...Miller is valuable because "he's a guy familiar with how political corruption works in New Orleans," Seifert insists. "We never paid any witnesses, and we directed that no witnesses be paid." Reports that Miller paid a witness to have sex with him and gave another money for heroin are, Seifert is sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NO SAINTS IN NEW ORLEANS | 7/7/1997 | See Source »

...superstar in the making, much as Greetings from Asbury Park did for Bruce Springsteen in 1973. Buckley's rise was tinged with poignancy. Success promised to lift him at last out of the haunting shadow of his father, the brilliant folk singer Tim Buckley, who died of a heroin overdose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: IN A SAD STATE OF GRACE | 6/16/1997 | See Source »

Mack says he cruised in his cab for fares coming out of the gay bars on Greenwich Village's dock strip at 3 a.m., ferried young professionals to buy heroin in the West Village's Alphabet City and once spent five hours inching through a flood with five malodorous tourists to Kennedy Airport...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, | Title: Extra! Eclectic Journalist Tries His Hand at Driving N.Y. Taxi | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...rented house on the Vineyard, cost $400,000. One thing that has not changed is the often bumpy transition as an artist moves from oblivion to stardom. It can be a scary ride, and it almost killed Taylor. "I was just swept away," he recalls about his bouts with heroin and alcohol. He has been clean and sober for 13 years, and is convinced that 12-step programs are the only answer to substance abuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: STILL SINGING THE BLUES | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

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