Why are rock stars like Eric Clapton able to kick heroin?

….when it claims the lives of so many addicts? Obviously rock stars are often immensely rich and can check in for the very best treatment but it’s more than that. In Eric Clapton’s case, it’s the ferocious determination that made him a star in the first place. The will and tenacity that made him practise the guitar for hours and hours, long before anyone had ever heard of him. His prodigious talent and relentless ambition that have kept him a star since the 1960s, which is why he’s still playing sublime solos like this in the autumn of his life. When people possess qualities like these, it takes more than heroin addiction and alcoholism to kill them off.