As Blog administrator I don't often post articles but this one from Frank Bruni at the New York Times is a must read for people like us. I hope you find it as interesting as I did, and if you do please share it with your friends.
Drinking and Drugging
By FRANK BRUNI
New York Times
Published: February 19, 2012
"CRACK is wack."
Remember that phrase? I heard many people repeat it last
week as they appraised the waste of Whitney Houston's later years and flashed
back to her 2002 interview with Diane Sawyer, when she uttered those immortal
words. She was bristling not at rumors that she abused drugs but at
insinuations that she turned to cheap ones. With album sales like hers, you
didn't have to suck on a pipe.
Sawyer wanted to know what Houston was on. Everyone wanted
to know what Houston was on, and news reports after her death took unconfirmed
inventory of the pills in her hotel suite, wondering if they represented the
extent of her indulgences.
No. By many accounts, Houston also drank. More than a
little. In fact one early, leading theory about the cause of her death, which
won't be known until toxicology tests are finished, was that a mix of
prescription drugs and alcohol did her in.
