| The insider: the day I captured Jimi Hendrix's soul
I just needed a sense of how they expressed themselves, and Hendrix had a fantastic stage charisma. He was also supremely good looking, with a wild Afro haircut, beautiful long fingers and a wicked smile. (Soon after that first gig, Brian Jones took him to I Was Lord Kitchener's Valet, the vintage clothing boutique on Portabello Road, where he decked himself out for the first time in what became his iconic military jackets.) Chas introduced him to me after the show and Hendrix was very polite - he even kept calling me 'Sir', though he was three years my senior. We agreed that he and the Experience would come to my studio in Piccadilly a few weeks later. Chas wanted a series of photos to put about the press. .
Overdose deaths on the rise, CDC says
Overdose fatalities have risen dramatically in the United States since 1999, largely because of prescription drugs.
According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, unintentional poisoning deaths -- 95% of which are drug overdoses -- increased from 12,186 in 1999 to 20,950 in 2004.
And during that time, prescription drugs overtook cocaine and heroin combined as the leading cause of lethal overdoses, said Dr. Len Paulozzi, a CDC injury prevention expert.
Overdose deaths have been increasing since the early 1990s. But the recent rise has been so dramatic that it is driving the first sustained increase in 25 years in the nation's overall injury death rate, Paulozzi wrote in a study published last month.
Drug treatment experts say they doubt that most people realize the seriousness of the problem.
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