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Brookfield Basics

A column about history, culture, policy, and things in between.

Rushin on Their Run

It has been a few years since I first wrote of the odious creep of heroin, and other opiate derivatives into the lives of our suburban youth. 


Rock music of the late 1960's and 70's was replete with lyrics and imagery of drug use, and the Rock 'n Roll scene of that era was littered with those who fell in their dance with that particular devil:  Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Duane Allman, Danny Whitten, and Graham Parsons to name just a few.    

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