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Nikki Sixx Says Music Industry's 'Enablers' Don't Want to Help Addicts

Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx says one of the reasons it's so hard for musicians to get off of drugs is because of enablers who don't want the money to stop rolling in.

Sixx, a self-described "survivor of heroin addiction and alcoholism," says some artists make so much money for other people, there's an almost institutionalized system of enabling their addictions.

“It depends on the artist," Sixx told syndicated talk show The Doctors. "Like when Whitney Houston passed away, I think it was a good time to look at enablers. There’s a lot of people around the artist – there’s managers, there’s agents, there’s road managers, there’s crew, there’s family members.

"So when you see a person heading towards that addiction, a lot of people don’t want to stop the money train, and that’s where you hear about a lot of the tragedies in rock 'n' roll, and other kinds of music as well.”

The songwriter claims that he had to nearly die and come back to life before trying to get off of heroin. 

“I was a heroin addict for exactly one year, and my heart stopped for two minutes and I came back," he said. "I went home and I shot up again and overdosed again. And I woke up the next day and I kind of had a spiritual awakening – that’s the only way I can explain it. .… It was the first time I didn’t want to do drugs." 

Sixx says he's out to help others get clean and stay clean and he has been vocal in recent months about factors contributing to America's opioid crisis.


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