Heroin Addiction: Esther Phillips “Home Is Where the Hatred Is” (1972)
Heroin Addiction: Esther Phillips “Home Is Where The Hatred Is” (1972)
Esther singing Gill Scott-Heron’s “Home Is Where the Hatred Is” a haunting account of drug use, she like Gill struggled with heroin addiction. “From a Whisper to a Scream” garnered a Grammy nomination in 1972. When Phillips lost to the “Queen of Soul” Aretha Franklin, the soul diva presented the trophy to Phillips, saying she should have won it instead. Ill health sadly undermined this artist’s undoubted potential. Phillips’ long-term heroin dependency, combined with heavy drinking, led to her death from liver and kidney failure in Carson, California in 1984, at the age of 48.
Heroin Addiction: Family awaits arrest in killing that happened in shadow of Kensington strangler cases
The rumor spread quickly through Philadelphia in December: The Kensington strangler had claimed another victim. Allison Edwards, 22, died in Juniata Park, not far from where Elaine Goldberg and Nicole Piacentini had been killed weeks before. Like them, Edwards was young and battling drug addiction, and ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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Heroin Addiction: Family awaits arrest in killing that happened in shadow of Kensington strangler cases
The rumor spread quickly through Philadelphia in December: The Kensington strangler had claimed another victim. Allison Edwards, 22, died in Juniata Park, not far from where Elaine Goldberg and Nicole Piacentini had been killed weeks before. Like them, Edwards was young and battling drug addiction, and ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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