The Music Business and Drugs

Anyone will agree that way too many musicians have succumbed to the effects of prolonged drug use. I often wondered why the music industry executives who were patently responsible for the financial successes of the artists they represented and promoted did not do enough to help them. Musicians are not money making machines, they are human beings with a tri-dimensional problem…the need for recognition, the need for recognition and the need for recognition. Whitney Houston's death we all agree could be avoided. Michael Jackson's death could have been avoided.

It is a darn shame that no one could have helped these individual in the time of their greatest need. Many would say that it is lonely at the top but it is really lonelier at the bottom of your addiction. The brain is a multi-faceted organ in the human body that scientist are still grappling with. It is complex, elusive and machinated to the point that its very own human housing can get played by it.

Addiction's cure clearly has eluded even the most talented among us. Could it be that there is more to the cure than following a set of prescribed steps? Could Jesus really be the answer to those hanging in addictions's limbo? Most clearly, the music business executives have not shown up when those most vulnerable among us were in jeopardy.

dArtery,
A Musician