Erika swore off with heroin after her friend's death. She had a conversation with her dad Ron about it, and they were looking for treatment. Erika's funeral was held in mid February 2011.
Tomorrow we head out. I'll be riding a Heritage Softail, so for the first time I'll have a chance to spend some real seat time. Maybe after four days I will finally have a better understanding of the Harley mystique. I've just never been a Harley guy. Although author for Rider magazine, Donya Carlson, will be on a Honda ST1300 The majority of the riders are also on Harleys. That is the bike I would have chosen had I not had this urge to really experience a Harley, finally.
For tonight, we're encamped in the Erwin Hotel in venice Beach. Yes, the pictures you've seen and the stories you've heard are true, there are a wide assortment of individuals here. In the outrageously dressed buttocks who bills himself as the world's biggest wineo (his spelling) to surfers, roller bladers, medical marijuana benefits dispensaries (Step in and get legal right now!) , to all the rest, restaurants, and the shops, Venice Beach is, shall we say, colorful.
Or it may be completely your fault and you"cheated" by getting pain medications from two individual doctors and more info here got caught. The reason, now you have no one and pain to help right?
"First-time heroin users aged 12 and older numbered about 114,000 in 2008 according to the US Department of Health and Human Services, NIDA. That may be just a tad conservative.
You think Whitney Houston was the best entertainer or not is not the point of this article, nor is it to denigrate her. It is simply to acknowledge that there's a drug problem in this country and the media and society as a whole are dismissing it as well as the negative impact it has on children and society.