Billy wrote: "There have also been musicians who were lucky enough to live through all the excess."

Joe Pass, James Taylor, Keith Richards (somehow).

The opioid problem is a bad one and we don't seem to be doing much about it.

I am guessing in most cases the addictive personality just gets amplified with the fame and money just like everything else. Then the availability of the substances and everyone seeming to offer to these people adds up to a bad situation.

My wife asked if I had seen the dog bowl. I told her I didn't even know he could.