- Martin A. Lee
Martin A. Lee is an author and activist who has written books and articles on far-right movements, terrorism, media issues and drug politics. Lee has an undergraduate degree in philosophy from the University of Michigan. He has been a guest teacher-in-residence at the University of Illinois, and has lectured at many colleges and universities, including Harvard University, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Johns Hopkins University and the American University in Paris. - Pete Townshend
Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend (born May 19, 1945 in Chiswick, London), is an award-winning English rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, and composer. Townshend made his name as the guitarist and principal songwriter for rock band The Who. His career with them spans more than 40 years, during which time the band grew to be considered one of the greatest and most influential rock bands of all time, … - Gary Webb
Gary Webb (August 31, 1955 - December 10, 2004) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American investigative journalist, best known for his 1996 "Dark Alliance" investigative report series, written for the "San Jose Mercury News". In the three-part series (later published as a book), Webb investigated Nicaraguans linked to the CIA-backed Contras who had allegedly distributed crack cocaine into Los Angeles and funneled profits to the Contras. - Brian Jones
Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones was the founding member, lead and rhythm guitarist and backing singer in the English rock group, The Rolling Stones. Jones was known for his multi-instrumental skills, fashionable mod image, and his drug excesses. His death at age 27 made him one of the first members of music's infamous 27 Club. - Marion Barry
Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr. (born March 6, 1936) is an American politician who served as the second elected mayor of the District of Columbia from 1979 to 1991, and again as the fourth mayor from 1995 to 1999. He was the target of a high-profile 1990 arrest on drug charges, which precluded him from seeking reelection that year. After he was convicted of the charges, Barry served 6 months in prison, … - Eazy-E
Eric Lynn Wright (September 7 1963-March 26 1995), better known by the stage name Eazy-E, was an American rapper, producer, and record executive from Compton, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. He was a Kelly Park Compton Crip from the early teenage years until his death, mentioned in the song 'Any Last Werdz?'. He was the son of Richard and Kathie Wright. - Tony Mokbel
Antonios Sajih 'Tony' Mokbel (b. August 8, 1965) is a convicted drug trafficker from Melbourne, Australia, who was a fugitive until his recapture in Greece on June 5 2007. Detectives from Operation Purana allege that he is the mastermind behind the Melbourne amphetamines trade. He has been linked to Carl Williams, as well as the killing of several victims of the Melbourne gangland war. He disappeared from Melbourne while on trial in March 2006, … - Alexander Shulgin
Alexander studied Chemistry at Harvard University and Biochemistry and Medicine at the University of California at Berkeley. He has authored over 200 research papers published in peer reviewed scientific journals, been awarded some 20 patents, has published 20 book chapters, and written four books. Alexander has been studying the chemistry and effects of the psychedelics for over 30 years. - Larry Campbell
Larry W. Campbell, MBA (born February 28 1948, in Brantford, Ontario) is the former Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and a Member of the Canadian Senate. - Kelli White
Kelli White (born April 1 1977 in Oakland, California) is a former American sprinter. She won two gold medals in the World Championships in Paris in 2003. However, on 2004-06-18, she was stripped of her medals because she tested positive for modafinil on a drug test. She admitted guilt and testified before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). All her performances since December 15, 2000, have been annulled. - Dana Plato
Dana Michelle Plato (November 1, 1963 - May 8, 1999) was an American actress who became famous playing the role of Kimberly Drummond in the U.S. television sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes". Plato's career declined after her departure from the show, with appearances in low-budget films, including some softcore pornography. She had chronic drug problems and committed suicide on May 8, 1999. - Brotha Lynch Hung
Brotha Lynch Hung (born Kevin Mann) is a Horrorcore/Gangsta Rap artist from Sacramento, California. He is known for lyrics featuring highly explicit themes, including murder, gang violence, and cannibalism. Lynch collaborated with Master P in his 1993 debut album, "24 Deep", which featured stories of the struggles involved with being affiliated with a local street gang in Sacramento's "Garden Blocc". - Lorraine Day
Lorraine Jeanette Day, MD is a practitioner of alternative medicine who claims to have discovered the cause and cure of cancer, as a result of God showing her how to recover from her own cancer with a 10 step plan. According to her theory, all cancers are due to weakness of the immune system which must be cured by diet. "All diseases are caused by a combination of three factors: malnutrition, dehydration, and stress." A former surgeon, … - Jesse James Hollywood
Jesse James Hollywood aka Spanner (born January 28, 1980 in Los Angeles, California) was a drug dealer and fugitive. He allegedly kidnapped and ordered the murder of Nicholas Markowitz. His drugs trade allowed him to acquire a small fortune with which he bought a $200,000 property in the San Fernando Valley area of Southern California and numerous exotic sports cars. He is currently awaiting trial in California, starting after 2007. - Sammy Kershaw
Samuel Paul "Sammy" Kershaw (born February 24, 1958, in Kaplan in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana) is an American Country music singer and songwriter. He is a relative of Cajun music legend Doug Kershaw. - Todd Bridges
Todd Anthony Bridges (born May 27, 1965 in San Francisco, California) is an American actor. A regular on the "Barney Miller" spinoff "Fish", Bridges is best known for his role as Willis Jackson on the television series "Diff'rent Strokes" from 1978 to 1986. Bridges became the first black child actor to have a recurring role on the successful TV series "The Waltons". He also appeared on "Little House on the Prairie". - Richard Hawley
Richard Hawley, (born January 17 1967 in Sheffield, England) is a critically acclaimed guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer. Hawley initially found success as a member of Britpop band The Longpigs in the 1990s. When a drug-filled torpor after an extensive tour of America brought the band to the brink of extinction in 1997, Hawley was asked to play with Pulp by his close friend and Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker. - Layzie Bone
Steven Howse (born September 23 1975), also known as Layzie Bone, L-Burna, # 1 Assassin and Lil' Lay, is an American rapper. He is a member of the rap group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. Howse was born in Cleveland, Ohio, where he grew up. He was apprehended selling drugs and was given the option of either being sent to jail or to Fort Worth, Texas with his uncle and aunt. - Javed Iqbal
Javed Iqbal Mughal (1956?-2001) was a serial killer from Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. He claimed he killed 100 boys during an 18 month period. He had been arrested in June 1998 for sexually abusing 2 boys for money. He went off on bail, and began murdering boys shortly afterwards. Iqbal found boys on the street, charmed them into his confidence, and then drugged, raped, and strangled them. He then cut the body into pieces and put them in a vat filled with hydrochloric acid. - Brad Hogg
George Bradley Hogg (born February 6, 1971 in Narrogin, Western Australia), known as Brad Hogg, is an Australian cricketer. He is primarily a left arm chinaman bowler, although he is a handy left-handed batsman as well and is an excellent fielder. His international career would have been a brief footnote in history, had it not been for Shane Warne's absence from cricket in 2003 due to suspension from a drugs test, … - Susan Orlean
Susan Orlean (born October 31 1955) is an American journalist whose feature writing drolly but affectionately considers "softer" subjects than some of those covered by her colleagues. She has been a staff writer for "The New Yorker" since 1982, and has contributed articles to "Vogue", "Rolling Stone", "Esquire", and " Outside". Orlean is the author of several books, including "The Orchid Thief", a profile of Florida orchid grower, … - Henri Michaux
Henri Michaux (May 24, 1899 - October 18, 1984) was a highly idiosyncratic Belgian poet, writer and painter who wrote in the French language. Michaux is best known for his esoteric books written in a highly accessible style, and his body of work includes poetry, travelogues, and art criticism. Michaux travelled widely, tried his hand at several careers, and experimented with drugs, the latter resulting in two of his most intriguing works, … - Michael Jeter
Michael Jeter (August 26, 1952 - March 30, 2003) was an American actor. Jeter was born in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, son of William (March 4,1922 - June 19,2007) and Virginia Jeter (July 16,1928). He was a student at Memphis State University when his interests changed from medicine to acting. He pursued his initial stage career in Baltimore, Maryland, as he had heard it was hard to get work in New York without an equity card. - Michael Horowitz
Michael Horowitz is an American author and archivist in San Francisco. He is the husband of Cynthia Palmer and the father of Winona Ryder. A former close associate of Timothy Leary, he is responsible With his wife for the creation of the world's largest library of drug literature, the Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library. Horowitz and actor Leonardo di Caprio are planning a biopic about Leary to be written by Craig Lucas. - Nicholas Saunders
Nicholas Saunders (January 25 (or possibly July 25), 1938 – February 3, 1998) was a free-thinking British figure of the 'alternative' movement from the 1970s until his death in a car crash in South Africa. He researched, self-published and distributed a series of editions of 'Alternative London'. These were encyclopaediac guides to living in London particularly for young people squatting, living on low incomes, on the fringes of conventional society, … - John Langley
John Langley, director, writer, and producer of television and film, is best known as the creator and executive producer of the long-running television show "COPS", which premiered on FOX in March 1989. Prior to that, he was among the reality television pioneers as a producer of various two-hour event specials in syndicated television markets during the 1980s. Among Langley's credits are "American Vice: The Doping of a Nation", … - Chico Debarge
Jonathan Arthur "Chico" DeBarge (born June 23, 1966 in Grand Rapids, Michigan) is an African-American R&B singer and a younger brother of the members of the Motown family act DeBarge. He began a musical career of his own with Motown in the mid-1980s, but was imprisoned for drug charges and served time in prison. After his release in the mid-1990s, DeBarge returned to Motown to continue his musical career. He later moved to Koch Records, where he released his last LP, … - Marcos Espinal
Marcos Espinal , Executive Secretary, Stop TB Partnership Secretariat Marcos Espinal is the Executive Secretary of the Global Partnership to Stop TB. He joined WHO in 1997 to lead the WHO/IUATLD Global Project on Drug Resistance Surveillance and the building of a strategy to manage MDR-TB in resource-limited countries. From 2000 he managed the DOTS-Plus initiative for the management of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, including the Green Light Committee. - Elliot Valenstein
Elliot S. Valenstein, PhD, is a professor emeritus of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Michigan. His theories challenge the conventional assumption that mental illness is biochemical, rejecting the 'chemical imbalance' theories used by drug companies in marketing their products, contending people should be suspicious of such claims while suggesting the targets of the marketing are usually medicating themselves unnecessarily. - Eric Douglas
Eric Douglas was an American actor. He was born Eric Anthony Douglas in Los Angeles, California, the youngest son of actor Kirk Douglas and German mother Anne Buydens. His half-brother is Michael Douglas. Unlike his more-famous Academy Award-winning relatives, Eric Douglas' most notable movie was the 1986 comedy "The Golden Child", which starred Eddie Murphy. Douglas battled with drug and alcohol problems for years, … - Trevor Goddard
Trevor Goddard (October 14, 1962 - June 7, 2003) was a former professional boxer turned actor who died from a drug overdose of heroin, cocaine and the prescription drugs Valium and Vicodin. His best known roles are Kano in the first "Mortal Kombat" movie and Lieutenant Commander Mic Brumby on "JAG". He was last seen in the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" as Grapple a pirate in 2003. - Anna Wood
Anna Wood was a schoolgirl from Sydney, Australia, who died at the age of 15 on October 24, 1995 at Royal North Shore Hospital, St. Leonards, N.S.W., after taking an ecstasy tablet at a dance party the previous night. The direct cause of death was a cerebral edema, caused by water intoxication and resultant hyponatremia. Her death, widely reported in the media, sparked off a moral panic regarding drugs and their perceived role in rave and dance party culture. - Alexandre de Merode
Prince Alexandre de Merode (1934 - November 19, 2002) was a member of a Belgian princely house and the head of drug testing policy for the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Born in Etterbeek, Belgium, de Merode was criticized for his lax policies regarding drug testing in the Olympic Games. For example, following the 1984 Summer Olympics, several test results were destroyed "accidentally" while in de Merode's hotel suite. - Fernando Vallejo
Fernando Vallejo is a biologist, filmmaker and writer, born in Colombia. He obtained Mexican nationality in 2007. He was born and raised in Medellín, though he abandoned his home town early in life. He started studies in Philosophy at the National University of Bogotá, but after one year he abandoned the Faculty of Philosophy and Lettres. Soon after he began new studies on Biology at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, which he finished. - Deforest Soaries
Dr. DeForest B. Soaries, Jr. is the Senior Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens in Somerset, New Jersey. A pioneer of faith-based community development, Dr. Soaries has led First Baptist in the construction of a new $20 million church complex and the formation of many not-for-profit entities to serve the community surrounding the church. Highlights of Dr. - Ernst T. Krebs
Ernst T. Krebs, Jr. (born 1912, died 1996) was a chemist best known for popularizing two substances as purported vitamins and cures: * Amygdalin (or laetrile), a purported cure for cancer, given the name "Vitamin B17" by Krebs. * Pangamic acid (or dimethylglycine), given the name "Vitamin B15" by Krebs. Critics regard Krebs as a quack. Some sources incorrectly claim either Krebs or his father, Ernst T. Krebs Sr., or both as the discoverer(s) of laetrile, … - Justin Pierre
Justin Courtney Pierre was born May 26 1976 and is the frontman for the band Motion City Soundtrack. Originally, Justin is from Mahtomedi, Minnesota, USA. He formed the band (Motion City Soundtrack) in 1997 with a friend (Joshua Cain). In addition to being the lead singer, Justin also plays guitar and is the primary lyricist for the band. He is noted for his pronounced sideburns, wild hair, and glasses (which are made by the company "Kirk Originals"). - Jimmy Kinnon
James P. Kinnon (5 April, 1911 - 9 July 1985, commonly known as Jimmy Kinnon or "Jimmy K.") was the co-founder of Narcotics Anonymous (NA), an international association of recovering drug addicts. During his lifetime, he was usually referred to as "Jimmy K." due to NA's principle of "personal anonymity" on the public level. He never referred to himself as the "founder" of NA, … - Abi Ofarim
Abi Ofarim (born Abraham Reichstadt, October 10, 1937 in Safed, British Mandate of Palestine) is an Israeli musician and dancer. At the age of 12, he attended ballet school, and made his debut on stage in Haifa at 15. By the age of 17 he was arranging his own choreography, and by 18 had his own dance studio. After he married Esther Ofarim he achieved some international fame, performing with her as a musical duo, … - Brian O'Dea
Brian O'Dea is a noted former Canadian drug smuggler. Born in Newfoundland in 1948, he first worked as a minor drug dealer in the province. Moving up he became an importer of marijuana to Canada from the United Kingdom. After being arrested on a minor charge in Canada he served a brief sentence before moving to Jamaica, where he coordinated marijuana and cocaine smuggling operations going from Colombia to the United States and Canada.
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