Natalie Cole Substance Abuse

Brenda Combs is a strong, determined women who has experienced the roughest parts of life and who has made a positive impact on people around her. When Combs developed a partying habit, she also got into the dangerous habit of taking drugs. Combs eventually became a cocaine addicted who would fall in and out of bad relationships. Then, one day when she got her shoes stolen from her, Combs decided to turn her life around and gain her dignity back. The first challenge she faced while changing her life around was to try and stay strong in rehab as it was “the hardest she had ever known” (paragraph 18). Combs determination eventually led her to a bachelor’s degree from the University of Phoenix and a job at the StarShine charter school.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to life? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it? – John Lennon. Drug and Alcohol addiction is a serious physical and psychological problem that can affect many aspects of an individual. Drug addiction is a serious problem that is gradually overcoming the community and organizations must be eager to avoid this continuation. Drug and Alcohol abuse leads to increased accidental deaths, internal conflict and detachment with family members.

It was a sunny afternoon, my friend and I were having a little talk, and she brought up the topic that she had an abnormal fear of the opposite sex, mentioning that she felt uncomfortable whenever she talked to men. She added that she was too anxious to look at their eyes or faces that she sweated every time she did. I tried to help her by suggesting a few reasonable causes of her phobia: the divorce of her parents, raised up by her mother all alone, studying in girl’s school and the forbiddance of young love in Chinese culture. All these factors further isolated her from making appropriate contact with the opposite sex in her puberty. In fact, these social institutions, such as family, education, economics, social

Whitney Houston is considered as one of the greatest singers of our generation. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, she holds the record of being the most rewarded female artist of all time. I chose her as my topic, because she represents resiliency and tenacity, despite her troubled experiences with drugs and her personal life. Whitney Houston comes from a family with an amazing, musical pedigree; her mother, Cissy Houston, was a successful back-up singer for Aretha Franklin and Elvis Presley. Dionne Warwick is her first cousin and Aretha Franklin is her godmother. In 1983, Houston was signed to Arista Records and music executive, Clive Davis, became her mentor and helped launch her successful career. Whitney Houston was

Her rise to fame and privileged life also identify her as a tragic hero, the famous family that she was surrounded with helped her to develop her love for music and aided the jumpstart of her career. Finally, Whitney had personal and decisive flaws, including a lack of self esteem concerning her personal character and a poor spouse choice, which ultimately lead Whitney to experience a downfall that included alcoholism, drug abuse, and, eventually, death. America was left void of their hero, once a mere young girl with stunning talent, beauty, and

28 Days is about a woman named Gwen Cummings (played by Sandra Bullock), an alcoholic, who crashes a stolen limousine while intoxicated on the day of her sister’s wedding. She is then court-ordered to a rehabilitation center for 28 days to be treated for Substance Use Disorder (SUD), specifically for Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD). At first, she is reluctant from participating in any treatment programs and refuses to admit that she is an alcoholic. This film shows Gwen’s journey to recovery, where she struggles through withdrawal, has many flashback memories, goes through therapy, and also becomes friends with the other patients along the way. Ultimately, she begins to restore a relationship with her sister, Lily, while also realizing that her boyfriend, Jasper, is a bad influence, as she tries to regain her life.

Nat King Cole was born in Montgomery, Alabama, on March 17, 1919. Cole, the son of a Baptist pastor, first learned to play the piano around the age of four with help from his mother, a church choir director. He owes most of his popular musical fame to his soft baritone voice, which he used to perform in big band and jazz genres.

Despite many hardships in Francis’ life, including a rape, many divorces, and the brutal murder of her brother, she continues to sing across the world today. Over the course of her life she has recorded over seventy LPs and starred on many TV shows and movies, as well. Though she was never inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, her impact on the rock and roll music industry during the 1950’s

Whitney Houston was born on August 9, 1963 in Newark, New Jersey. Her parents are Cissy and John Houston. At an early age Whitney knew with the guiding hands of cousin Dionne Warwick and godmother Aretha Franklin she would become an amazing singer. Cissy Houston was the choir minister at New Hope Baptist Church, and that’s where she got her start. On her first interview with Diane Sawyer, Houston said “I think I knew then that [my singing ability] was an infectious thing that God had given me.”

Nat” King” Cole was born Nathaniel Adams Cole on March 17, 1919 in Montgomery, AL. His father, Pastor Coles was a butcher before he became a Baptist minister. The only

Stevie Nicks was born May 26, 1948, in Phoenix, Arizona. She signed with Fleetwood Mac in 1975, becoming an instant sensation, she also released solo albums. After years of struggling with addiction, Nicks finally recovered her wellbeing and liveliness. Fleetwood Mac reunified in 1997 and was welcomed into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.

I will explore the life of a white 23-year-old female college student named Becky who still lives at home with both her parents in the suburbs. Becky has a boyfriend named Jason who is 28 and a high school dropout. Recently Becky’s mother found a package of heroin and cocaine in her daughter’s room however when she confronted her daughter Becky denied that the substance belongs to her. It was not until long that Becky’s drug problem became known when she was picked up from a club trying to buy drugs from an undercover police officer. Becky has been court ordered to go detox then to a rehabilitation center for 90 days as well as attend Narcotics Anonymous and Alcohol Anonymous. Becky’s boyfriend was not

It was all started in Newark , an eleven years aged girl with an angelic voice singing at the “New Hope Baptist Church” and made all the audience stunned with her powerful voice. Yes folks ! we are talking about the undisputed diva of pop music in 90s- Whitney Houston . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukxayxN4Iao ( Whitney Singing in New Hope Baptist Church at the age of 15) Whitney Elizabeth Houston was born in New Jersey on August 9, 1963.

Alexis Neiers feared the physical symptoms of withdrawal, she knew them well her first detox took place in her jail cell. Far more terrifying for Alexis than the physical withdrawals was the end of the “numbness” of the drugs. Without heroin she would have to face the realities of the abuse she had faced as a child no longer being able to block out the traumatic event of her past. Neiers drug abuse as a coping method with childhood sexual abuse is an indicative symptom of some degree of post- traumatic stress disorder. Neiers is amongst those with post-traumatic stress syndrome who had gone without treatment and chose instead to self-medicate. (Breslau, N.

She was able to overcome all that to become an important influence to many musicians like Neneh Cherry who believes that Billie holiday was a “role model, an innovator, and activist” (Griffin). But also a really strong black women because back then it was difficult for a “women who wasn’t white” to make it as far as she did (Griffin). Even though her songs were about abuse and sorrow, she didn’t want other musicians to copy her singing style, instead she wanted musicians to advance the “wisdom and spirituality of songs like Strange Fruit and God Bless the Child” because those two songs have meaning behind them like “Strange Fruit” that song was created by a “teacher named Abel Meeropol” and asked holiday if she could sing it. Holiday was scared