In addition to her heroin use, it was said that Billie Holiday “drank a river of hard booze” (DeVeaux, 1980). Billie Holiday was hospitalized in 1959 for cardiac and kidney failure. While she was on her death bed, she was arrested by the New York City Police, who found heroin in her hospital room.
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