Relapse is a Concept Album about a Medical Horror Serial Killer Slim who Marshall transforms into whenever he takes drugs. He was also snorting inhalants from grade school, then switched to alcohol. In "Just Don't Give A Fuck", Slim Shady is an alcoholic, as well as " doing acid, crack, smack, coke, and smoking dope, then". Eminem has done many, both in his Anti-Role Model persona Slim Shady and as his real self. Duran Duran covered it after the band sobered up from their own awful struggles with cocaine as it was the biggest "fuck you" song about it they could find. "White Lines" by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five is all over the disparity in sentencing between wealthy white people who get busted with cocaine and working-class or poor Black people convicted of the same (or lesser) crimes, and the ravages the drug does to the user's sanity, bank account, and health. Afroman's "Because I Got High" is a humorous take on it, but still details all the things the singer meant to do but didn't because he was too high on pot. Aesop Rock's "Basic Cable" satirizes television addiction. The title refers to the facial numbness experienced after snorting the drug. "Can't Feel My Face" by The Weeknd, which compares cocaine addiction to a destructive relationship with a woman. "Monkey" by George Michael is his metaphor of drug addiction being like "a monkey on your back". "Morphine" by Michael Jackson is about, well, morphine addiction the song's meaning was given a greater amount of context after Jackson's death in 2009, when it became apparent that he had been constantly addicted to prescription painkillers since a freak accident on the set of a Pepsi commercial in 1984, in which a pyrotechnic effect went off too early and set Jackson's hair on fire, severely burning his scalp. "Chandelier" by Sia is sung from the perspective of a "party girl" describing her drunken antics (including swinging from the chandelier). The video is packed to the brim with pills and bottles, and the meaning is clear. "A Little Chunk of Hope" by Jack Stauber. 
Despite its very upbeat sound, an easily missed lyric in Third Eye Blind's "Semi-Charmed Life" indicates it's about crystal meth addiction."Rush" by Depeche Mode was based on lead vocalist Dave Gahan's heroin addiction, which was one of several factors influencing the album's unusually Darker and Edgier content (even by the famously dour band's standards)."Not An Addict" by Ks Choice has the verses seemingly extol the virtues of using drugs while the chorus has the singer denying being an addict (as the title suggests) but suggesting she's probably lying.The fact that the "woman" (who, in the music video is represented by Pamela Anderson/Vallery Irons) is described as using up his friends and plans, yet she still "means everything (to him)", and the fact that in the end of the video she devours him support this alternative interpretation. Lit: The band's singer has stated that, if Miserable is not interpreted as an anti-love song, it could also be about addiction.
Red Hot Chili Peppers' song "Under the Bridge" is about lead singer Anthony Kiedis' narcotics addiction and its impact on his life, with the song's title being in reference to a bridge in Southern LA where he used to buy drugs and the lyrics "I don't ever want to feel / Like I did that day" being a reference to the low points his addiction brought him.Dee Dee Ramone, the primary composer, sadly was writing from personal experience. Inspired by the latter song above, The Ramones released "Chinese Rocks", about heroin addiction.The proto-alternative rockers, Velvet Underground, were also one of the first bands to address IV drug addiction, in "I'm Waiting for the Man", "White Light/White Heat", and of course "Heroin".
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