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Jul 16, 1952
A day after his release from Bellevue Hospital in New York, Woody Guthrie checks into Kings County Hospital, convinced he needs to combat an alcohol addiction. His real problem, still undiagnosed, is a neurological disease, Huntington's chorea
Nov 27, 1952
Hank Williams checks back into a Shreveport sanitarium to battle addictions
Jul 26, 1965
"Seven Spanish Angels" singer Ray Charles enters a rehab center in Los Angeles to battle a heroin addiction
Apr 28, 1966
Just weeks after Ray Charles' version of Buck Owens' "Crying Time" peaked in pop's Top 10, doctors pronounce Charles clean of his addiction to heroin
Dec 3, 1966
A Boston court convicts Ray Charles of heroin and marijuana possession. He receives a five-year suspended sentence and a $10,000 fine. Charles had a pop hit earlier in the year with Buck Owens' "Crying Time"
Nov 11, 1967
Johnny Cash performs live without the aid of drugs for the first time in more than a decade at a high school in Hendersonville, Tennessee
Jun 17, 1969
Roger Miller takes an "upper" for the last time, ending his relationship with narcotics
Mar 31, 1970
Hank Snow gives up alcohol
Nov 17, 1970
Roger Miller admits to an Associated Press reporter that he had taken amphetamines until the previous year. He says his decision to quit came down to whether he "was going to be a man or a vegetable"
Oct 15, 1973
Elvis Presley begins a two-week stay at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis with breathing problems. He is publicly said to have pneumonia, though he is actually addicted to Demerol
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