X-Nico

unusual facts about heroin addict



Cain's Book

A roman a clef, it details the life of Joe Necchi, a heroin addict and writer, who is living and working on a scow on the Hudson River in New York.

Women in Cages

Cellmate Stokes (Roberta Collins) is a heroin addict who agrees to a plot involving Jeff, that will secure her more heroin.


see also

Expressions of Social Justice Festival

-Sherrybaby, (2006), starring Maggie Gyllenhaal as a former heroin addict who has recently left prison and is attempting to re-establish a relationship with her young daughter.

For the Roses

"Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire" — a menacing and jazzy portrait of a heroin addict — and the Beethoven-inspired "Judgment of the Moon and Stars" were also popular.

Mother Country

Mother Country (2002) is a novel by Libby Purves about a young American computer expert who goes in search of the relatives of his biological father, a teenage heroin addict in 1970s London when she had him who was pronounced an unfit mother and who died soon after giving birth to him.

Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth

As documented in the film Dig!, the song is dedicated to the band The Brian Jonestown Massacre, friends/rivals of The Dandy Warhols at the time, who in turn dedicated their own track "Not If You Were the Last Dandy on Earth" to them; although frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor revealed in an interview that the song is also about his girlfriend at the time who, according to him, had become a heroin addict.

Sonia Martínez

As a consequence of these problems, linked with some personal crises, Sonia became an Heroin addict (Social impact of this drug was extremely wide in Madrid in those years) and was diagnosed as an AIDS victim in 1990.