Drugs Controlled the Great Ones

Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, Whitney Houston, and Jimi Hendrix, the greatest musicians/entertainers of our time, all taken down by drugs.

Is life not complicated enough without adding drugs to the mix? Abuse drugs and they will defeat you every time. The battle is solely between you and the drug. Are you strong enough to defeat it? More often than not, the answer is no. Drugs and Alcohol Abuse are extremely dark forces and are the antithesis to life. Drugs have the final say.

You cannot allow narcotics and alcohol to control your life. Learn how to have fun without the use of drugs. Drugs are controlled, kept at bay, and out of your life, by dealing with the tough times, sober. Drugs and alcohol provide a crutch, an ephemeral escape from the difficult challenges of life. What you can count on, 100%, is the fact that when you come down from your high, your problems will be right there waiting for you. While you were in your stupor, your issues have grown, they have magnified, because of your drug use. You have to let it go, you must not allow a substance to dictate your life. 

When you're not in your correct mind, drugs and alcohol take control. This is why abusers tend to do very absurd and irrational things because the drugs are in charge. 

Michael, Whitney, Elvis, and Jimi, didn't grasp the magnitude and power of their collective adversary. They dabbled, it took control, dominated their lives, and then killed them.

Michael - 50, Whitney - 48, Elvis - 42, Jimi - 27

All untimely deaths, all too young to leave us. Part of their legacy, and the most important lesson: don't make the same mistake. Regardless of fortune or fame, drugs win the majority of the time.

When you think about the demise of the aforementioned superstars, ironically, when each one of them transitioned from this life to the next, neither knew what it was that took them out. It's doubtful that either of the four, recognized their transitions until after they were safely on the Other Side.

I know this for a fact because there was a time in my life when alcohol had its hold on me. A head-on collision in 1982 should have killed me. I only remember getting on the expressway, that's it. I don't remember, nor have I ever recalled the actual collision. I was either unconscious or blacked out from drinking. I woke up a few minutes after the accident, sitting in a mangled, totaled-out Trans Am. If I would have transitioned that night, I would not have known what (literally) hit me. I would not have known until I reached the Other Side.

The question you must ask yourself is, is it worth it? There are quite a few people who sit in prison today and don't recall what happened the night they actually killed someone. Whether it was vehicular homicide, or murder, it was alcohol or drugs that took control and squarely placed them in the predicament they find themselves today.

Again, the question is, is it worth it? We all are aware, at least we should be, of the fact that there are consequences for every action. There are absolutely no good consequences to drug and alcohol abuse. Every single consequence leads to disaster.

RIP Elvis, Mike, Whitney, and Jimi, we will heed your warnings.

B. E. Shaw