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Originally Posted by Dead-Air
Reed didn't really do a lot of heroin despite writing songs about it in the early days of the Velvets. His thing for years on end was shooting speed. Actually harder to imagine he's still alive after doing that.
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I think speed ruined his creativity because his jaws apparently are paralysed by it, let alone his brain.
There's no point in saying any drugs (including alcohol) are better than others. If you are not of a certain mindset or constitution you are bound to fuck up, which is the case for 90% of people. I think they are also ultimately detrimental to one's creativity, if turned into a lifestyle. There are people who can still survive regular use unscathed, but those are few and far inbetween if you compare them to all the people who destroy themselves, so it's like playing a game of russian roulette.