Heroin addict? Frankie?

This picture is rumored to be among his last taken in 1968. Looking at this, and listening to his songs from 1961, 1964, and 1968 I just find it very hard to imagine that Frankie was heavily addicted to heroin. I know the majority of the pics available of him are professional and he probably wore makeup. But, still he looked amazing! It still would be interesting to see a pic of him when he was out on the street on drugs or something like that though.

As for his voice, although it got deeper (as every voice does as one reaches adulthood) it still sounded great. It is surprising that heroin didn't seem to effect it at all. Not, that I personally think it really would since he would only injectet it into his veins. I say that because it seems that some people are ignorant and feel that it was his drug use that caused his voice to change rather than puberty which everyone goes through. I guess since Frankie was a star as a child he was immune from mother nature. Please!

But anyway the main point of this post is you can't judge a book just by its cover. This cliche is very true cause just look at that handsome man. Does he look like he could possibly do anything as bad as heroin?