Abuse and addiction in the music industry

I choose this topic, because a lot of musical artists have been addicted to drugs and alcohol in their career, and through time, a lot of the musical artists died because of an overdose of their addictions, and I wanted to know why so many musical artists are addicted, and why they started on their addictions.

Whitney Houston:

As a child, Whitney grew up in a middle-class home in East Orange, New Jersey surrounded by a drug culture. Her home life combined dysfunction and abuse with both parents repeatedly cheating on one another leading to divorce. Her Brother Michael, a supposed role model, failed in his attempts to protect young Whitney by introducing her to drugs at the age of 16. As Whitney developed in the music business, her addictions only got worse as the pressures from the music industry weighed heavily upon her. Whitney died in 2012, when she was only 48 years old, from a drug-related accidental drowning.

Amy Winehouse:

Amy Winehouse was born in a Jewish family and was raised primarily by her mother, who divorced her father, when Winehouse was nine. Many of the heartbreak songs on her next album, Back to Black, were written about her “on and off” relationship with Blake Fielder-Civil. After marrying Fielder-Civil in May 2007, Winehouse began behaving increasingly abnormal and cancelled shows. Winehouse went into personal chaos, caused by anorexic, weight loss, drunken performances, and an arrest in Norway for drugs possession, and a video of Winehouse smoking cocaine was posted on the Internet in January 2008. Amy Winehouse died in an age of 27 because of an alcohol poisoning.