In and out of hospitals and rehabs, Billy wrote three novels, of which the first, "Speed" (1970), detailing the ordeal of amphetamine addiction, showed literary promise.
The economic slump brings a much-needed moment to pause and reflect on our addiction to speed.
Mark C. Taylor, the book's author and chair of the department of religion at Columbia University, sees humanity's addiction to speed as a fundamentally religious phenomenon.
The speed with which my Twitter addiction has returned is made more remarkable by the fact that – as I wrote before – I really didn't miss it.
Conrades and Sagan set plans to hunker down until bigger companies could replace the doomed dot-coms as customers and develop an addiction to the speed that Akamai provided.
You will feel a slight decline in your acceleration when you shift sooner, but once again, try hard to shed any addiction to power, speed, and acceleration.
Speeding his descent was an addiction to cocaine so serious that it "impaired his ability to make the distinction between fantasy and reality," one of his psychologists, Paul J. Rinaldi, said in court papers.
By 18, she was speed-balling and had a full-blown crack and heroin addiction.
"Berlin" evokes Gail Sheehy's exposé, "Speed Is of the Essence," published in 1971, when the perils of methedrine addiction were just beginning to be recognized.
"We know that the role of pain pills and illegal prescription drugs has fed the addiction epidemic, but with heroin, the numbers are growing with frightening speed".
Peter Kay, the chief executive of the Sporting Chance clinic which helps sportsmen fight addiction, told the BBC that 10 players have been in touch since Speed's death.
