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Heroin Addiction: Home of Betty Ford’s rehab center absorbs loss
Rancho Mirage was a billionaires’ playground dotted by gated golf resorts and spas before Betty Ford’s rehab center made it famous to the rest of the world by treating a stream of spiraling Hollywood stars who…
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Heroin Addiction: read up! ‘Everybody Loves You When You’re Dead”
Have you ever wondered why Lady Gaga decided she was going to be a famous singer? Or wondered how Chuck Berry feels about being a washed-up rocker in a genre he helped define? Did you know that in reality, Stephen Colbert is actually a soft-spoken person who is active within his church? How about that […]
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Heroin Addiction: Lonely Teenager – Dion

Lonely Teenager – Dion. Dion Francis DiMucci (born July 18, 1939), better known as Dion, is an American singer-songwriter whose work has incorporated elements of doo-wop, pop, rock and R&B styles. One of the most popular American rock ‘n’ roll performers of the pre-British Invasion era, Dion had over a dozen Top 40 hits in the late 1950s and early 60s. He is best remembered for the exuberant 1961 singles “Runaround Sue”, a No. 1 hit about a two-timing woman, and “The Wanderer”, a No. 2 hit about a philandering man that was, somewhat accidentally, an answer song to “Runaround Sue”. Due to changing public tastes and personal problems, Dion faltered in the mid-1960s; he regained popularity later in the decade and into the early 1970s with more mature, contemplative material such as “Abraham, Martin & John”. He has continued making music to the present, earning reappraisals from critics who earlier dismissed him as a teen idol. In early 1960, Dion checked in to hospital for heroin addiction, a problem he had had since his mid-teens. In October 1960, Dion decided to quit for a solo career. The main reason was his heroin addiction. He then recorded, with new vocal group The Del-Satins, an up-tempo number co-written with Ernie Maresca. The record, “Runaround Sue”, stormed up the US charts, reaching No. 1 in September 1961, and No. 11 in the UK, where he also toured. “Runaround Sue” sold over a million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. Laurie promoted the single record A-side …
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