Drug abuse

With all of the movies that we watched in class (Ray, Cadillac Records, and Walk the Line) there was always someone in the movie who had a problem with drugs. Both Etta James and Ray Charles were addicted to heroin. There were scenes of Johnny Cash and Elvis using prescription pain killers in Walk The Line. There are many other artists both past and present who have found their fame and popularity to be too much to handle and never truly seem happy. Its very sad that of all these artists with so much talent, many of them overdosed on drugs.