In the eighties he lived the cliché of intercourse, medicine and rock’n’roll and was closely hooked on heroin – then Billy Idol says he discovered different medicine to get off the needle.
https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/billy-idol-behauptet-crack-habe-bei-seinem-heroinentzug-geholfen-a-0203146c-0800-4b79-a6a1-0af2430a17da#ref=rss