Heroin Addicts Who Died from OD:
Musicians
Janis Joplin
Sid Vicious
James Honeyman Scott
Pete Farndon,
Adny Wood
Jonathon Melvoin
Layne Stanley
Dee Dee Ramone
Mike Bloomfield
Robin Crosby
Howie Epstein
GG Allin
John Balance
Lester Bands
Matty Blagg
Billie Holliday
Zac Foley
Rick Evers
Tim Buckley
Brian Cole
Darby Crash
John Dougherty
Dwaye Goettel
Sean Greenway
Stacy Guess
Tim Hardin
Tim Hemensley
Rob Jones
John Kahn
Wells Kelly
Kenny Kiland
Phil Lynott
Frankie Lyman
David McComb
Jimmy McCulloch
Robbie McIntosh
Jim Morrison (?)
Miss Christine
Kristine Pfaff
Esther Phillips
Tobert Quine
Jimmy Reilly
Andy Rogers
Micheal Rudetsky
Brady Nowell
Malcom Owen
Judy Sill
Hillel Slovak
Vinny Taylor
Actor/Comedians:
John Belushi
Chris Farley
Max Cantor (became an addict while researching for a role)
Jean Eagels
Mitch Hedberg
Robert Pastorelli
River Phoenix
Glenn Quinn
Alma Reubens
Brett Whitely
Other
Pamela Coursen, Jim Morrison’s gf
Elisa Bridges, Model
Paul DeMayo, Bodybuilder
Eric Snow (athlete)
Paula Yates (Michael Hutchen’s gf)
Poets/Artists/Writers:
Jean Basquiet
Michael Dransfield
Jack Kerouac
Brett Whitely
Other Creative types who have been:
(H) Hospitalized for depression or mental illness
(SA) Made a suicide attempt
(D) Committed suicide
WRITERS:
Hans Christian Andersen (H)
Honore de Balzac (H)
James Barrie (H)
William Faulkner (H)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (H)
Ernest Hemingway (H, S)
Hermann Hesse (H, SA)
Henrik Ibsen, (H, SA)
Henry James, (H, SA)
William James, (H, SA)
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), (SA)
Joseph Conrad (SA)
Charles Dickens, (SA)
Isak Dinesen (SA)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, (SA)
Herman Melville, (H, SA
Eugene O'Neill (H, SA)
Mary Shelley, (H)
Robert Louis Stevenson, (H)
Leo Tolstoy, (H)
Mary Wollstonecraft (SA)
Virginia Woolf (H, S)
POETS:
William Blake, (S)
Robert Burns, (S)
George Gordon, (S)
Lord Byron, (S)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, (S)
Hart Crane (S)
Emily Dickinson, (H)
T.S. Eliot (H)
Oliver Goldsmith, (S)
Gerard Manley Hopkins, (S)
Victor Hugo, (S)
Samuel Johnson, (S)
John Keats, (S)
Vachel Lindsay (S)
James Russell Lowell, (H)
Robert Lowell (H)
Edna St. Vincent Millay (H)
Boris Pasternak (H)
Sylvia Plath (H, S)
Edgar Allan Poe (SA)
Ezra Pound (H)
Anne Sexton (H, S)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (SA)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, (H)
Dylan Thomas, (H)
Walt Whitman (H)
ARTISTS:
Richard Dadd (H)
Thomas Eakins, (SA)
Paul Gauguin (SA)
Vincent van Gogh (H, S)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (H, S)
Edward Lear, (H)
Michelangelo, (H)
Edvard Meunch (H)
Georgia O'Keeffe (H)
George Romney, (SA)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (SA)
