{"id":3082,"date":"2009-08-30T02:35:31","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T10:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=3082"},"modified":"2009-08-30T02:35:31","modified_gmt":"2009-08-30T10:35:31","slug":"dj-am-another-one-bites-the-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/dj-am-another-one-bites-the-dust\/","title":{"rendered":"DJ AM: Another One Bites the Dust"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am still only barely aware of who DJ AM was, but I’m very sorry to hear about his death. \u00a0 I can’t understand why a man with 11 years of sobriety could throw it all away. Listen<\/a> to him talking about his commitment to helping other addicts in their recovery.<\/p>\n

He seems like a lovely guy. He was in a band that tortured me with one of the worst songs ever written but that was all in the past. It seems like he knew everything he needed to know about where drugs would lead him. And yet apparently he forgot all of it, the endless pointless misery of it, in one bleak evening alone.<\/p>\n

No one should die with a crack pipe in their lap or a needle in their arm! In the last week or so, two people I care about came close. Fuckers.<\/p>\n

See the necklace up there? I’ll bet some people who stumble across this picture will be going, “Um that is so rad, where can I buy that?” instead of thinking, “Why the fuck would anyone think a syringe would look cool as jewelry?” \u00a0 I wish the designer had made a little dead guy with a syringe sticking out of an abscessed foot.<\/p>\n

A whole year ago I wrote about addiction and intervention<\/a>. I still urge everyone to fight hard against romanticising drug use, and to hold on to your loved ones who are struggling to stay sober. Beg them to stick around. Threaten to kill them if they use again. \u00a0 If you hear someone glorifying dope addicts, punch them in the face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"