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By the mid-1940s, Billie Holiday was spending about $500 a week on drugs (with inflation, over $9,000 in today’s money). She was a frequent drinker and user of marijuana, opium, cocaine, and especially heroin. When arrested and forced to stand trial for narcotics possession, Holiday requested to be sent to a rehabilitation facility.
3 de abr. de 2014 · Billie Holiday was one of the most influential jazz singers of all time. She had a thriving career for many years before she lost her battle with addiction.
Holiday mostly used narcotics such as cannabis, heroin, and cocaine. The FBN was especially interested in targeting the use of opioids such as heroin, to curb the rampant addiction in the US. Anslinger also had a personal aversion to cannabis, although it was reportedly nowhere near as dangerous as opioids. This contributed to Holiday being a ...
27 de feb. de 2021 · Johann Hari’s drug policy and addiction-concept-reform book, Chasing the Scream, in which Billie Holliday’s persecution at the hands of federal drug enforcement pioneer Harry Anslinger is ...
2 de ene. de 2023 · Billie Holiday, probably the most moving, unadulterated jazz singer of all time, was born on 7 April 1915. When she died 44 years later, on 17 April 1959, she still had a long career ahead of her as a cultural icon, yet to try and reconstruct her life as that of an ordinary woman beset by trial and tribulation is to misunderstand her with a degree of perversity equal to her own.
1 de abr. de 2015 · Holiday sought treatment for heroin addiction, but was eventually arrested for drug possession in 1947 and ended up serving 10 months in a federal prison. ... When Billie Holiday died, ...
3 de dic. de 2020 · Directed by Lee Daniels and starring Andra Day, it focuses on the government surveillance Billie Holiday endured for her drug addiction and her song "Strange Fruit." 'The United States v.
