£100million diva Whitney Houston blew fortune on crack

“Are blacks (African Americans) genetically predisposed to addiction to narcotics? How is that once they start taking drugs, it spirals out of control- while many White celebs are still able to do drugs and “function.”?”
Well, before Whitney Houston, the last major celebrity to die from crack addiction was Amy Winehouse.
Unless my memory fails me, I do not believe that she was black.
And then there are others -such as Anna Nicole Smith, Marilyn Monroe, John Belushi, Elvis Presley, and many other white celebrities who died from some form of drug addiction or the other. So if there is a racial basis for drug addition, the evidence has so far been carefully hidden.
Moving on ..
If you travel to economically depressed cities with mostly white populations, you will find a major addiction to CRACK. Sure, crack addiction has also devastated black neighborhoods, but there are HUNDREDS of mostly-white communities in North America where crack addiction is also epidemic.
So the big factor underlying crack addiction is NOT racial. It is Economic. Simply put, crack is the poor man’s cocaine. If a cocaid drug user is rich, she will likely do cocaine. If she is poor, she will have no choice but crack. People like Whitney Houston and Amy Winehouse who are rich (?) and also on crack are exceptions to the rule, and rich folks like that probably got into the crack habit from hanging out with ghetto company.
Moving on …
Unfortunately for all of us, between crack and cocaine, crack is by far the more addictive variant. The cheaper substance is also the more addictive and dangerous. People in Wall Street and Aso Rock can do cocaine and still function, because cocaine addiction does not, for the most part, alter the human personality. It merely depletes your bank account, perhaps until you can no longer afford cocaine, at which point you may descend down to crack, at which point your life will spiral completely out of control.
So if you have a good stream of income, you can keep keep it together, even with cocaine addiction. And since white people are on the whole richer than black folks, more white drug users will do cocaine, while more black drug users will do crack. That’s why it sometimes seems as if they handle drug addiction better than the rest of us. They don’t. They just have more money.
Crack, on the other hand, is devastating. It is like sex: anybody who tries crack once will almost invariably go back to it again.
Here is the pain: crack isn’t just addictive. It alters the mind in a way that makes it impossible to function normally. So a crack habit isn’t just an addiction, it is a descent into insanity. If you are a Nigerian residing in North America, denying your children the opportunity to mess with that stuff should be considered a prime parental responsibility.
Finally, so far, crack-addiction treatment programs are really a scam. The Government injects an unholy amount of money into it, but the success rate is less than 1%! It would appear that, once you go crack, you never go back. I am a big believer in personal responsibility, but people addicted to crack lost control long ago. What they really need is sympathy.
Final finally: while I generally don’t support Capital Punishment, I emphatically support death penalty for drug pushers. They waste too many lives. Nothing can destroy a community, or steal an entire community, so thoroughly.

£100million diva Whitney Houston blew fortune on crack – The Sun.co.uk
…Star got addicted to drug and died broke
TRAGIC Whitney Houston died virtually BANKRUPT after her £100million fortune vanished amid her crack cocaine addiction.
At her peak in the 1980s and ’90s, Whitney was the golden girl of the music industry — and one of the world’s best-selling artists.
But her descent into a drug-addled hell saw the hits dry up — and her millions swallowed up by ruthless dealers.


Whitney famously denied using crack when she was interviewed on TV in 2002, saying: “I make too much money to smoke crack. Crack is wack.”
But she would eventually admit to abusing cocaine, marijuana and pills — while her powerful voice was ruined by the effects of smoking crack pipes.
Whitney was rushed to hospital in 2003 with blood gushing from her nose, later emerging with a bizarre bandage on her face.
And the full extent of her spiral into squalor and degradation emerged in 2006 with the publication of shocking photos showing the disgusting state of her bathroom after a drug binge.
Drug gear, including a crack pipe and cocaine-encrusted spoons, was strewn across the filthy room.
In a brutally honest interview with TV chat queen Oprah Winfrey three years later, Whitney finally admitted for the first time that she had become addicted to crack in the 1990s after marrying fellow pop star Bobby Brown.
She even admitted she spent seven months living in her pyjamas while hooked on the killer drug.
Whitney told how she and Brown would get off their heads smoking cannabis laced with crack.
Squalid … drug gear in Whitney Houston’s filthy bathroom
Asked by Oprah how bad the situation became, she said: “You’re living in the same house, and you’re sitting next to that person and you’re not saying a word for a week. And you just sit there watching TV. That bad.
“I didn’t think about singing any more — I’d totally forgotten about that life. I had so much money by that time.”
Whitney, who starred with Kevin Costner in 1992 film The Bodyguard, admitted she would smoke drugs for days on end.
She said: “After The Bodyguard it started getting heavy — cocaine, marijuana.
“We were lacing our marijuana with base (cocaine). We would buy a kilo. We were not doing pipe smoking. You roll it up and you smoke it in your weed.”

TROUBLED star talked candidly about getting life back on track just last year

Tina said at the time: “The truth needs to come out. Whitney won’t stay off the drugs. It’s every single day. Everyone is so scared she is going to overdose.”
In a shocking interview, Tina told how Whitney would spend days locked in her bedroom amid piles of rubbish, smoking crack, using sex toys and ignoring her personal hygiene. The tormented star also imagined she was being beaten up byDEMONS — but the sad truth was she was biting and punching her own body without realising.
Tina said: “She’ll point to the floor and say, ‘See that demon. I’m telling you somebody’s messing with Bobby’. She always thinks it’s something to do with Bobby. But it’s her, hitting herself.”
Tina said Whitney constantly broke things around her home and was so paranoid she made a hole in the bathroom wall so she could see who was in the house.
Whitney’s teenage daughter Bobbi Kristina was often left frightened by her mum’s bizarre behaviour, Tina said.
She also claimed Whitney ended up so wasted on drugs that she wet herself — then put on a nappy.
Whitney would call a stream of dealers to her house to buy “eight-balls” — lumps of crack weighing an eighth of an ounce each.
Users usually break an eight-ball up into smaller pieces, but Tina said Whitney would cut open a cigar and put the whole rock inside with marijuana before smoking it. Whitney twice went into rehab before telling Oprah she was drug-free in 2010.
But she pulled out of a string of concerts in Britain and the US, and suffered a series of public meltdowns.
A singer who accompanied Whitney on her final tour in 2010 last night told how he could see her troubled past in her eyes.
Simon J Bailey, 30, opened for Whitney on the Manchester dates of her Nothing But Love tour. Last night he told The Sun: “You could see in her eyes that she had been through some tough times.
“I think you can always see that a person has been through turmoil.
“All I ever saw her drink was water, I never saw any drink or drugs.” Simon said he spoke only briefly to Whitney — but would never forget her.
He added: “I am just lost for words after hearing what has happened. She was such an amazing talent and a beautiful person too — it’s just devastating. It was such an honour to perform with her.
“You just think people around her could have helped her, although I know they must have tried.” Whitney had furiously denied recent reports suggesting she was on the brink of bankruptcy. But she had long suffered from financial problems because of her addiction.
In 2006 she faced eviction from her £4million home after running up almost £500,000 in mortgage arrears and unpaid taxes.
Just five years earlier, Whitney had signed what was then the biggest record deal in music history — a $100million six-album contract with Arista/BMG.
In the months before her death, it appeared Whitney was being financially supported by Arista, which had given her an advance payment on her next album.
A music industry source said just a few days before her death: “Whitney should have Mariah Carey money, and she’s flat broke.”
Just like Jacko…

IT WAS surreal being in Beverly Hills when the news broke.
LA is in the grip of awards season excitement, with a huge buzz of anticipation for the Grammys.
But the mood changed as word spread of yet another troubled star’s shockingly premature death.
Like Michael Jackson and Amy Winehouse, it came as a shock but not a surprise. Whitney’s problems had been well documented.
I met Whitney in 2009 and was upset to see how fragile she was. She seemed unsteady on her feet, distant and fidgety in front of an audience. It was supposed to be the start of a glorious comeback.
But it is clear she was fighting a losing battle with her demons.
Like Jacko with Dr Conrad Murray and Amy with Blake Fielder-Civil, her drug problems were largely down to someone else.
Like Jacko and Amy, Whitney should be remembered for that amazing voice. It made her a global star loved by millions.
Choir girl to chart giant
AUGUST 9, 1963: Whitney is born in Newark, New Jersey, to noted gospel singer Cissy Houston and Army entertainment exec John Russell Houston Jr.
1977: Aged 14, Whitney, who started her career as a soloist in a church choir, is offered a recording contract but Cissy wants her to finish school.
1978: She sings background vocals on Chaka Khan’s single I’m Every Woman.
1980: Whitney begins modelling and is featured in Seventeen magazine.
1983: Arista Records offers a worldwide recording contract.
1985: Whitney’s self-titled debut album is released. Single Saving All My Love For You is her first UK No 1.
1986: Her album hits No 1 in the year-end charts, wins her a Grammy and is dubbed Best Album of ’86 by Rolling Stone.
1987: She releases her second album, entitled Whitney.
1988: She receives her second Grammy for I Wanna Dance With Somebody.
1989: She meets her future husband, singer Bobby Brown.
1992: Whitney makes movie debut in The Bodyguard, which grosses more than £80million. It included her huge hit single, I Will Always Love You.
1993: She gives birth to her daughter, Bobbi Kristina Houston Brown.
1999: Single My Love is Your Love hits No 2 in the UK.
2000: Whitney is busted at a Hawaii airport for trying to sneak cannabis past security.
2002: She admits she has dabbled in alcohol, cannabis, cocaine and prescription drugs.
DECEMBER 2003: Bobby Brown is busted for allegedly attacking her during a row.
MARCH 2004: She enters rehab to deal with drug abuse but leaves after five days.
MARCH 2005: Back to rehab.
OCTOBER 2006: She files for divorce after 14 years.
AUGUST 2009: Single Million Dollar Bill is released and peaks at No 5 in UK.
2010: Whitney appears to be going downhill when she cancels shows due to “illness”.
MAY 2011: Back to rehab.