Tag: Alcoholism
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Troubled gig ends with .38-caliber slug

Alcohol and drugs destroyed actor Gig Young’s career — and his life. He was hooked on the tranquilizer Valium, taking seven pills a day, washed down with booze.
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Peace returns to the valley

Amid the storm I think about my wife, as I do every day, but particularly on this day, the day she left the earth.
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A long time in the Twilight Zone

Nineteen months after the death of his wife, it is as though she just vanished. Poof! One minute she was here and the next she was gone.
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Ed Flanders lonely end

“He came in by himself,” the bartender recalled, “and always sat in the same place, on the bar stool near the door. He was a very lonely man.”
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‘Tears are falling and I feel the pain’

His behavior became erratic when he started on Prozac, his wife said, drastically altering his moods and personality. The suit was eventually dropped, but the case brought attention to the possible connection between suicides and drugs like Prozac.
