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DrugsSeptember 21, 2021September 22, 2021

Ice Storm on the Texas Horizon 2005

He thought he was done with methamphetamine, the poor man’s cocaine that had been so popular with his peers in the Austin music scene of the 1980s. Loren had happily gone eight years without the sleepless weekends and ensuing crash into depression and paranoia that speed brings. But then he ran into his old dealer, […]

DrugsSeptember 21, 2021September 22, 2021

Heroin: Music Industry Confronts Its “Dark, Dirty Secret”

“Musicians can be admired for their quest for higher consciousness,” Wimmer said, “but when heroin is the vehicle to get there, the mental quest often becomes secondary to the body’s quest to keep stabilized. The once glorious path becomes little more than a shortcut that leads to nowhere.”

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