Did we need more proof? Is anyone surprised?
For more than 10 years, I was a featured speaker at more than 100 DARE graduations. DARE, for those who may not know, is a program educating youth on the dangers of drug and alcohol abuse.
In those days, I was no more politically correct than I am today and once or twice, I was accused of being somewhat, harsh, in my direct language. I would routinely, at each and every DARE graduation, tell the kids, 5th graders, and their parents, that there were only 2 things drugs would do for you.
1) Drugs will make you stupid.
2) Drugs will make you dead.
Once again, a celebrity has proved my point.
Whitney Houston died, officially, of drowning. That water, from her bath tub, got into her lungs when she suffered a heart attack brought about by arterial sclerosis as a result of cocaine use.
Houston, had cocaine IN her system when she drowned.
Cocaine, Xanax, Flexiril and over-the-counter Benadryl were ALL in her system when she drowned.
For years, over a decade, Whitney Houston used and abused both prescription and illegal drugs and alcohol.
It made her stupid.
It also took a physical toll on her body, inside and out. Houston went from one of the most beautiful women in show business and one of the most talented singers ever to grace the stage, to a falling down addicted shell of her former self.
No longer hot, in looks or record sales, Whitney Houston was a garden variety mess.
She left a legacy of music and most, especially her ardent fans, will focus on that. They will promote that legacy and place the once incredible Whitney Houston on a pedestal. They will hold tightly to the music, embracing the ideal of the icon.
They will praise the legend and ignore the lesson.
That, perhaps, is as sad as what Houston managed to do to herself.
While no cocaine was found in her hotel room, the scene of her demise, somewhere, from someone, she obtained it and like she had done for so many years, she either smoked it or shoved it up her nose.
Somewhere out there is someone who provided that final bit of Whitney Houston’s final snort, or puff and whoever that person is, they know their role in what happened.
It may have been a regular supplier. It may have been a punk on a street corner. It may as well have been the grim reaper himself. Either she bought it herself, or someone bought it for her and gave it to her. If the latter is the case, then someone out there knows they too played a role in her final minutes and they, like the dealer, aren’t talking.
We know Whitney Houston took the pills and did the cocaine. We know that with her body spinning from the cocaine high and the Xanax induced low, her drug addled heart seized up as she reclined in a tub of hot water containing a gravy boat of olive oil.
Houston had been made stupid by the drugs for more than a decade and then, just before a party 4 floors down, the drugs made her dead.
While the dealers and enablers had a role in it, the responsibility for it belongs only to Whitney Houston.
Marilyn, Elvis, Belushi, Candy, Anna Nicole, Michael, Winehouse…the list of celebrities responsible for their own demise is nearly endless and the number of those who never attained celebrity status and yet were just as responsible for their own deaths for the exact same reasons is thousands, hundreds of thousands time greater.
In that respect, Houston and other celebrities were no better off than nameless junkies with the only difference being celebrities 
die in nicer bathrooms than the rest.
For those who choose to whitewash the truth, remember the good and gloss over the bad, you are adding to the problem. Until we tell the truth, the whole truth about Houston and the rest, others will think they are somehow better, or stronger and the gravity which brought down Marilyn, Elvis, Belushi, Candy, Anna Nicole, Michael, Winehouse or any of the rest of them doesn’t apply to them.
There will be those who will continue to say of Whitney Houston…It’s a shame what happened to her.
They would be wrong.
Dead wrong.
The real shame is what Houston and the rest…Did to themselves.
The most basic, hard and fast truth there is, is the truth of personal responsibility and I will make no apologies for telling it.
Whitney Houston was a national treasure. She was signed by Arista when she was a young woman and because of her incredible talent she became very well known and started earning a lot of money for Arista. She came from a church background but her mother and the rest of her family and her old pastor and whoever else had been around when she was growing up and singing in the choir didn’t make sure she was okay, they just carried on with being around her and her ups and downs, and never got her protection , that is not enough protection against the company she was keeping and the effects of the lifestyle she adopted.
Obviously she went into rehab over and over again, which shows that she wasn’t enjoying herself very much and wanted to get well, but there were always people hanging around her who were making money out of her habit, and others who were making money off the sales of her records and CD’s etc who liked the money they were making but really didn’t care enough to put themselves out to take care of Whitney herself. If you are truly interested in the plight of Whitney Houston, then I suggest you search the internet for more information regarding what really happened that night. Yes of course she took far too many risks with her health and yes her looks did show that she was the worse for wear, but there but for the grace of God, go I. In this world, at this time, with the black role model of the moment living in the WH, what can you expect? Unless we make some urgently required changes to the leadership of this country, we are not in a position to criticise anyone…………………………….Fast and Furious, eh? Didn’t the ATF and the FBI have a little gunwalking thing going on, didn’t the DEA launder drug money so that we could um…………….ur……………………. do something about stopping the drug trade? Maybe I’m dreaming.
I have loved whitney from the beginning of time, even more obsessed with her since her death. Drugs can affect us all if we choose ti be involved with that life style, what I loved most about Whitney, is because I have an eye of seeing right through people, is that she was down to earth, I just didnt know it was that down. With that being said behind the life of celebrity she was just like anyone one else and yes i admit she had a sickness and loved her unconditionally, like a mother loves her child. But right is right and wrong is wrong, and you are telling the truth. It is what it is. My heart so heavy feeling sorry for her family and friends, I miss her and im just a fan, cant even imagine how they feel.