Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Cocaine In Fame

There are many famous people who uses cocaine for recreational use 
  1. Micheal Ray Richardson was a famous basketball player that played for the New York Knicks. He was drafted 4th pick in the 1978 NBA draft. He was a 3 time offender of the NBA's drug policy. During this time he was playing for the New Jersey Nets. He sacrificed his NBA career for addiction to cocaine.  

2.Another famous person who had an huge impact on American society just as well as cocaine is singer/actress Whitney Houston. She Has won many Grammy awards.She was an wife to another cocaine addict named Bobby Brown and he was also inspirational to the music industry. The two of them were addicted to cocaine in the crack form and powdered form. Whitney and Bobby smoked crack cocaine in front of Bobbi Kristine at the age of 5 and by time she was 14 she was hooked on cocaine.

3.Ike Turner is the husband of Tina Turner Just as well as Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston they are a powerful couple in the music industry, and is a big influence to many couples and duets in today's music.Ike was a drug addict who was very abusive to his wife just like Bobby Brown was abusive to Whitney. Ike had an very successful career but struggled with drug abuse and later died in 2008 from a cocaine overdose 



This show that cocaine and fame had an huge impact on society because Micheal Ray Robinson was a great basketball player and many people wanted to be like him. It's likely that he caused many teens and people of his age to do cocaine.

Bobby Brown and Ike Turner are two people who struggled with cocaine addiction and were abusive to their wives. Cocaine has linked to spouse abuse and abuse to their lovers and partner when used for many years. So this can be an example of how cocaine caused them to beat their wives. 

Also Bobbi Kristine is the child of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown.She witnessed her parents smoke crack in front of her and she was hooked on crack by 14. Likely, she began to do drugs because her parents exposed it to her at an young age.

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