Known for his hedonistic lifestyle of " sex, drugs and rock ' n roll ," Brood was an enfant terrible and a cultural figure whose suicide, apparently caused by a failure to kick his drug and alcohol habit, only strengthened his controversial status.

And Herman's drug habit became public domain: In 1977 for instance the Wild Romance played a gig in a highschool in Almelo, the Christelijk Lyceum ; during the break Brood was caught on the toilet taking heroine or speed ( there are different reports on the type of drug, but it is a wellknown story amongst former students ), the rest of the concert was cancelled, and this also was the last time a rockconcert took place at this school for many years.

He himself had been arrested for drug possession while on tour in Los Angeles, and his drug habit had been made public in a devastating interview that Cab Calloway gave to Down Beat.

French sailors provided another major group of opium smokers, having contracted the habit in French Indochina, where the drug was promoted by the colonial government as a monopoly and source of revenue.

Traditionally khat is used as a socializing drug, and this is still very much the case in Yemen, where khat chewing is predominantly a male habit.

* BBC News: Harmless habit or dangerous drug?

To support himself and his drug habit, Holmes ventured into crime, selling drugs for gangs, prostituting himself to both men and women, and committing credit card fraud and petty theft.

After breaking this habit, he traveled across the US, touring schools and warning about the dangers of drug abuse.

** Drug addiction is sometimes referred to as " having a drug habit ".

This habit became so bad he would sometimes spend $ 500 a day on the drug.

His performance, described by Janet Maslin in The New York Times as " desperately moving ", was widely praised, though Downey has said that for him " the role was like the ghost of Christmas Future " since his drug habit resulted in his becoming an " exaggeration of the character " in real life.

The relationship between the two was put under further strain, because of Doherty's heavy heroin habit and his visits to Moorish under the influence of the drug.

For 10 years, GlaxoSmithKline ( GSK ) marketing of the drug stated that it was " not habit forming ," which numerous experts and at least one court found to be incorrect.

Barton attended Clemson University and the University of South Carolina, where he earned a degree in chemistry despite his ongoing drug habit.

With the assistance of independent production company Avenue, the director made Drugstore Cowboy, his 1989 film about four drug addicts who rob pharmacies to support their habit.

After appearing on the show she was offered a temporary role as a troubled prostitute trying to kick her drug habit, but she turned it down because she wanted to maintain a wholesome image.

By 2004, Haim appeared to have overcome his drug habit after his mother persuaded him to return to Toronto with her and resettle there.

Danny ' Spud ' Murphy has been regularly attending group sessions in an attempt to kick his drug habit.

* Danny " Spud " Murphy-After receiving his share of the drug money he has been regularly attending group sessions in an attempt to kick his drug habit.

Although she is eventually able to break her drug habit after much effort, she has already contracted HIV from a needle containing infected blood and dies from complications from AIDS in 1986 at the age of 26.

The story follows Bob Hughes ( Matt Dillon ) and his crew of drug addicts as they travel across the U. S. Pacific Northwest in the early 1970s, supporting their habit by robbing pharmacies and hospitals.

Doherty had returned to his drug habit and so relationships were strained.

Typical examples of this hypocrisy were his replacing characters with scab workers when they decided to go on strike and a Sunday strip that showed the results of drug tests of employees of the cartoons and even Berke Breathed himself, who Thornhump thinks should be executed because the drug test revealed that he ate " one marijuana brownie six years ago.

In the book The Damage Done, former prisoner and drug courier Warren Fellows recounts that the prison was nicknamed " Big Tiger " by the Thais because it " prowled and ate ".

He referred to those he didn't like as wastes, paedophiles were rock spiders, drug users and people who ate or drank too much were dirties.

Oral medication offers safety, simplicity and represents a step away from injection-based drug abuse in those recovering from addiction.

In 1966, The Byrds moved rapidly away from folk rock with their single " Eight Miles High ", which made use of free jazz and Indian ragas, and the lyrics of which were widely taken to refer to drug use.

More recently, in Morse v. Frederick, the Court ruled that schools could, consistent with the First Amendment, restrict student speech at school-sponsored events, even events away from school grounds, if students promote " illegal drug use.

Concerned about her husband's dependence on the drug, Partridge's wife threw his tablets away — without seeking medical advice — just before the Paris concert.

The narrator thinks they are trying to take his memories of Lenore away from him using nepenthe, a drug mentioned in Homer's Odyssey to induce forgetfulness.

At the hotel Nick is attacked by a woman who tries to drug and then stab him, saying " You think you can just come here and take it away from us?

By the 1990s, the Aryan Brotherhood had shifted its focus away from killing for strictly racial reasons and focused on organized crime, such as drug trafficking, prostitution and sanctioned murders.

In February 1981, under the advice of music promoter Freddy Couseart, Gaye relocated to Couseart's apartment in Ostend, Belgium where he briefly was able to back away from drug usage and got his confidence back.

* Any person who traffics in a dangerous drug shall be liable upon conviction to a fine of HK $ 5, 000, 000 and imprisonment for life, where trafficking includes selling or giving away any amount of a dangerous drug.

The bill states that only a person over 18 can have access to the drug, the places where marijuana is sold cannot also sell alcoholic drinks, and must be at least 1000 meters away from schools.

He is a beekeeper by profession, who raises two granddaughters ( Biel and Zima ) because his son ( Wood ) is in prison and his daughter-in-law Helen ( Dunford ), a drug addict, has run away.

Sean ( Devon Sawa ), a fellow punk, is a drug dealer who once attempts to stab his mother while under the influence of acid, before being taken away by the police ; Stevo later finds him panhandling on the streets.

In early 2009, a petition to President Barack Obama was written asking that he appoints a " Drug Czar " who will treat drug abuse as a health issue rather than a criminal issue and will move away from a " War on Drugs " paradigm.

Be it enacted ... That whoever, within the District of Columbia or any of the Territories of the United States ... shall sell ... or shall offer to sell, or to lend, or to give away, or in any manner to exhibit, or shall otherwise publish or offer to publish in any manner, or shall have in his possession, for any such purpose or purposes, an obscene book, pamphlet, paper, writing, advertisement, circular, print, picture, drawing or other representation, figure, or image on or of paper or other material, or any cast instrument, or other article of an immoral nature, or any drug or medicine, or any article whatever, for the prevention of conception, or for causing unlawful abortion, or shall advertise the same for sale, or shall write or print, or cause to be written or printed, any card, circular, book, pamphlet, advertisement, or notice of any kind, stating when, where, how, or of whom, or by what means, any of the articles in this section … can be purchased or obtained, or shall manufacture, draw, or print, or in any wise make any of such articles, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof in any court of the United States ... he shall be imprisoned at hard labor in the penitentiary for not less than six months nor more than five years for each offense, or fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than two thousand dollars, with costs of court.

Amongst Barbarians is set far away from Margaret Thatcher's Britain in Penang, Malaysia, a former British colony, where two young Englishmen have been arrested for drug trafficking.

Stipe had planned a collaboration with friend, Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, in 1994 ; partly in an attempt to lure Cobain away from his home and his drug addiction.

In Phase 1 drug trials, participants are paid because they give up their time ( sometimes away from their homes ) and are exposed to unknown risks, without the expectation of any benefit.

He had difficulties breaking away from his experience as a teen actor, and was troubled by drug addiction throughout his later career.

He had gotten a pretty large supply of methadone in England, so he could travel and stay away from those creeps-the drug dealers, Thunders imitators, and losers like that.

The sketchy effects that are often associated with drug trades are severely minimized and the filtering process that comes with physical interaction fades away.

In 2006, the British the human rights organisation Reprieve made an appeal to Governor Bush for clemency on Maharaj's behalf, pointing out that the jury heard from none of Maharaj's alibi witnesses, who would have put him 25 miles away at the time of the murder ; that the prosecution ’ s star witness changed his story several times ; and that evidence has emerged since the trial that the murder victims were involved in money laundering and had links to drug traffickers, and that there are a number of alternative suspects with strong motives which were not considered at the time.

In his on-the-air comments that evening, he stated that he had taken the drug paraphernalia away from a longtime friend who was battling a drug addiction.

Mandragora is a 1997 film by Polish director Wiktor Grodecki about the mental and physical decline of a 15-year old boy who runs away from his seemingly distanced father to Prague, where he becomes a victim of the drug and sex scene.