While most people keep their use of illegal drugs under wraps, famous people have more trouble than most, or simply don't bother trying to hide it.
Sherlock Holmes - opiates
The fictional super sleuth enjoyed his smack, as outlined in The Sign of Four. ‘With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt cuff...the sinewy forearm and wrist, all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks... he sank back into the velvet lined armchair with a long sigh of satisfaction.’
Adolf Hitler - methamphetamine
Genocide and goose stepping can really take it out of you. Adolf had daily meth injections into his buttocks to get him psyched up for sauerkraut and rewriting European maps.
Bob Denver - cannabis
Famous character from Gilligan’s Island is a fan of grass, and was convicted of possessing marijuana and drug paraphernalia. No doubt the skipper would not be happy.
Sigmund Freud - cocaine
Psychiatrist responsible for the genital slip, I mean freudian slip. Wrote of cocaine’s euphoria and ‘stimulative effect on the genitalia’. Less keen after a friend died from overdose.
Courtney Love - heroin
“This is heroin. I love heroin. I do it all the time. Me and my boyfriend, we do heroin all the time”. Unfortunately, Kurt died from overdose but Courtney sings on.
Jim Morrisoin - LSD, booze, heroin, everything
Lead singer of The Doors was largely into LSD and booze, but would take anything he could get his hands on. Died of a probable heroin overdose in Paris. “Come on baby, light my pyre”.
Stephen King - cocaine
Horror novelist used to do a lot of cocaine and cannot remember writing some of his books. King claims that coke stopped him from drinking himself into an early death.
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