Music From The Villain Songbook Analysis

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In "Drugs And Rock: Music From The Heroin Songbook," Maxim W. Furek, a director of Garden Walk Recovery and a researcher of new drug trends, briefly educates the reader about heroine history. “Heroin was initially marketed as a remedy for tuberculosis, laryngitis, and coughs. It was also ironically touted as a potential cure for morphine addiction” (Furek). He discusses the relation between heroin use and rock musicians. After WWII, jazz/blues/bebop, the origins of rock, musicians start to use heroine (Furek). He lists off musicians that struggle with heroine addictions and those who have died because of it. Songs such as: “Heroin,” “Cold Turkey,” “Sister Morphine,” “King Heroin,” “Beware the Man (With the Candy in His Hands),” “Pool Shark,”