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Ray Charles
Hulton Archive
When: October 1964
After being busted for marijuana and heroin possession at a Boston airport, Ray Charles (seen here with Willie Nelson... don't get on his bus, Ray!) used his third drug charge as the catalyst for recovery. Checking himself into a rehab center and quitting heroin cold turkey, he stayed clean until his death, making it impossible for any of us to try and make jokes about this in any capacity.
