Tom Petty, the singer and guitarist whose influential music spanned four decades, died in October from an accidental drug overdose as a result of mixing medications involving opioids, his family announced Friday.
Source: Washington Post
Previously: US Rock Star Tom Petty Dies Aged 66
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 22 2018, @05:40AM (1 child)
Many have little clue what the meds they are doing actually do
This is what happens when you have puritanical laws that make certain substances illegal.
You lose control of quality.
Janis Joplin shot contaminated dope and died from the heavy metal impurities.
Jazz guitarist Emily Remler had been buying stuff that was stepped on several times and when she got some stuff that was more pure than usual, she used the usual volume and OD'd fatally.
God damn the racist bluenose busybodies who push prohibition.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 22 2018, @09:56PM
Typically their noses are red due to the hypocrisy of alcohol not being a "drug".