The Biggest Stars Who Died of Overdose

Overdoses Among Celebrities

Addiction doesn’t care if you’re famous or not. At the same time, the subject of celebrities who died of alcohol poisoning, heroin overdose, mixed drug toxicity, or other drug overdoses sometimes seems ubiquitous in widespread media coverage. Celebrity itself can’t be blamed entirely for people in the entertainment industry suffering from drug and alcohol addictions or drug-related deaths. A combination of risk factors—the most important being a family history of drug abuse— increases the probability of developing a drug or alcohol disorder.