10. Layne Staley of Alice in Chains, 1967-2002
“I know I’m near death, I did crack and heroin for years. I never wanted to end my life this way.” At the end, Layne Staley of the Alice in Chains group weighed less than 90 pounds. His teeth had fallen out, his skin was pale and his spent his free time doing cocaine and heroin alone on his couch. The coroner s report concluded that Staley died after injecting a mixture of heroin and cocaine known as a “speedball.”
