The shocking truth about Jim Morrison's death surfaces

I doubt if traces of heroin would still be around to verify the story even if they did exhume his body...

Sunday 8th July, 2007 : Thirty-six-year-old case of Jim Morrison's death may be reopened, with a former close friend of the late lead singer of The Doors now claiming that he was killed by heroin overdose, and that two drug dealers covered up his demise by removing his body from the actual spot of mishap.

The official death certificate of Morrison's death states that he died in the bath of "natural causes". But Sam Bernett claims that the singer died of a massive heroin overdose in the toilet of a nightclub that he was managing, the Rock 'n' Roll Circus on the French capital's fabled Left Bank.

Bernett, a French-born former New York Times journalist, says that Morrison's dead body was later on removed from that place and dumped in the bath at his home by two drug dealers. In an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail, Bernett also claimed that the club owners had warned him never to utter a word about what he had seen.

Bernett is revealing all these allegations in his forthcoming book 'The End - Jim Morrison', which is soon to be published in France. The paper reports that French authorities are very much concerned about the seriousness of these allegations, and that Brenett's account may lead to the reopening of Morrison's death case.

The shocking truth about Jim Morrison's death surfaces

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The New Face of Heroin...

Heroin in Suburbia: New Face of Addiction
Aug. 4, 2008 - Heroin Is Attracting New Users Who Are Young, Middle Class and Suburban

The first time Lauren, a suburban teenager in Connecticut, took a prescription pain killer, she says she was sick with strep throat during her freshman year in college and grabbed a Percoset from her parents' medicine cabinet. She never dreamed where that one pill would take her. A few weeks later, she took an Oxycontin to help her sleep. The next day she took another. "Once I started, I never stopped," she said.

In less that two years, Lauren, who asked that her last name not be used because of privacy concerns, said she was spending $300 to $400 a day on pills. She stole jewelry from her mother and aunt in North Haven, an upper middle class bedroom community near New Haven, Conn., and passed back checks, racking up close to $20,000 in debt, according to her mother. But when she still couldn't afford pills, which can cost more than $60 each on the street, Lauren turned to something more affordable and more deadly to satisfy her addiction: heroin. "When you think of a heroin addict, you don't think of me," she said. "But that's what I became."

"When you're sick" from withdrawal "nothing else matters except making it go away," she said. "I took whatever I could find, whatever was there." Though overall heroin use has remained relatively stable nationwide, numerous police agencies across the country say the drug, once the scourge of poor inner cities, has in the last several years attracted a new generation of users who are largely young, middle-class and living in rural and suburban areas.

At least part of that resurgence, police say, is a side effect of the explosion in prescription drug abuse. Federal statistics show that nearly 7 million Americans abused prescription drugs in 2007, more than marijuana, cocaine, heroin and Ecstasy combined -- an 80 percent increase since 2000. Police fear the boom in pain killer abuse is leading teens and young adults, like Lauren, from pills to heroin, a cheaper and more powerful – and far more dangerous - opiate.

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