The Heroin Diaries is a collection of Motley Crue founder and bass player Nikki Sixx’s diaries from December 1986 to December 1987. A lot of other 80’s rockers also wrote in the book commenting on what was happening at the time. At this point in time Motley was working on their fourth album Girls, Girls, Girls and Nikki was headed in a downward spiral, he was at the worst point in his life. Nikki had a terrible battle with addiction, his main drug of choice being heroin. The story starts off on Christmas Eve with Nikki crouched naked under his Christmas tree with a needle in his arm and writing in his diary. He continues to say how he didn’t talk to anybody that day. He then gives reason for starting this new diary “1. I have no friends left. 2. So I can read back and …show more content…
At one point in the book NIkki got clean for a while but that didn’t last but a few days. The book is broken up into months of the year being the chapters, the months fly by and its December of 1987. Motley Crue just finished the U.S leg of the tour and are on break in L.A. Nikki was staying in a hotel with Slash and Steven Adler of Guns N’ Roses when the event that changed his life happened. Nikki and Steven went to someone that was selling heroin in the hotel and Nikki let someone shoot him up. Nikki walks back to the room where Slash and his girlfriend were staying at and collapsed into the door and turned blue in the face. Slash’s girlfriend starts performing CPR and put him under water in the shower. In the mean time Slash was freaking out, going on a drunken rampage because a few weeks prior a good friend of his OD’d and he didn’t want to lose Nikki. Slash eventually passed out and paramedics arrived and pronounced Nikki dead on arrival. On the way to the hospital one of the paramedics realized it was Nikki Sixx on the ambulance and gave him two shots of adrenaline and his heart started again. He woke up a few