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Heroin use by rock musicians goes much farther back than the 90s. It was already pervasive when I first visited the Haight in 1968. Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, many others survived. Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison didn't.

https://whitesandstreatment.com/infographics/the-ultimate-list-of-musicians-lost-to-drugs/

And you can carry the history back before that to jazz musicians.

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That's why I wrote: "Heroin of course was connected to rock music long before the 1990s" and included the early 70s pic of the Stones. The point is that it came to be associated with rock musicians again in the 1990s.

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