Notable Users
Circa 1900, Harry Kendall Thaw was an early user of speedball. In 1996, Dave Gahan suffered a heart attack following a speedball overdose, but survived. Steven Adler had a stroke after taking a speedball, leaving him with a permanent speech impediment.
Among celebrities who admitted using speedballs are Chet Baker (in the documentary film Let's Get Lost), Dave Mustaine, David Ellefson (in the documentary Behind The Music), Cream bassist Jack Bruce (as stated in an interview with Daily Record in 2009), Nikki Sixx (in The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star and The Dirt), Anthony Kiedis (in his autobiography Scar Tissue), David Crosby (in his autobiography Long Time Gone), Miles Davis, and Slash (in his autobiography Slash). Slash experienced cardiac arrest for 8 minutes, but was revived.
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