Evans Liberal Politics
March 20, 2011

Anti-Drug Music Video
Captain Jack – Billy Joel

When someone told me, back in 1975 or 76, when I became well aware of this song, that it was about heroin, I though that this was such a cool name for this drug, heroin. Billy Joel himself says that he wrote the piece as an anti-drug song back in 1971. The local pusher in the projects outside of Joel’s appartment was named ‘Captain Jack’ and I’m not sure, but I believe that because of this song, ‘Captain Jack’ became another slang name for heroin, itself.

I had no idea what a destructive force heroin is in people’s lives until last year, when I came to know well some people who were addicted to the drug. Only TEN PERCENT of people who become addicted to heroin ever break free of the addiction. A police officer once told me, meaning every word, that “the only cure for heroin addiction is death.” So kids, this song may be gloriously shocking, as Billy Joel intended, but if you have HALFa brain in your your head, you will NEVER, EVER try this drug. (And F.Y.I. once you’re hoooked, which can be after one dose, it costs $60 a day to stay out of withdrawal.)

Please Say A Prayer For Heroin Addicts

Please say a prayer for the junkies (and all who are addicted) in this world. Someone needs to help and pray for the heroin addicts, and all those who are sunk into full addiction, and society would like to pretend that they do not exist, or that they are evil and to be avoided at all costs. But you know in your heart that God loves the heroin junkies of this world just as much as the police officers. Please just join me in a simple prayer of healing.