Why? Friggin’ because, that’s why! Don’t interrupt me while I’m shooting up! 
Velvet Underground - Heroin
Marcy Playground - Poppies and Opium
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Opium Tea
Guns n’ Roses - Mr. Brownstone
**Metallica - Master of Puppets ** (a bit more ambiguous but generally about being enslaved and powerless to a force - the lyrics seem to speak mostly to drug use…)
Countless others - but those come to mind first…I suppose that Velvet Revolver song I’m Falling…
Rolling Stones - Sister Morphine
Velvet Underground - Waiting for the Man
Savoy Brown - Needle and Spoon
I’ve read that Iggy Pop’s Lust For Life is all about heroin use. Personally I can’t understand what he’s saying. People in the US nowadays most likely know that song, oddly enough, as the theme from those cruise ship commercials, which obviously don’t highlight the junkie aspect.
Neil Young - The Needle and the Damage Done
Warren Zevon - Carmelita
Lynyrd Skynyrd - That Smell
Lynyrd Skynyrd - The Needle and the Spoon
Steppenwolf/Hoyt Axton - The Pusher
John Prine - Sam Stone
I always liked Perfect Circle’s Nurse, which features the lines:
She’s got everything I need, pharmacy keys.
and
Say hello to the rug’s topography.
U2 - Running to Stand Still
Nirvana - passim
While opiates are not specifically mentioned, Sarah McLachlan’s “Angel” is about drugs.
Well shoot, marijuana and other hallucinogens aren’t opiates, so there goes half my list.
Cindy’s Cryin’, Tom Paxton
Codeine, Buffy St. Marie
Time Out of Mind, Steely Dan
Dead Flowers, The Rolling Stones
Cold Blue Steel and Sweetfire, Joni Mitchell
Treetop Flyer, David Crosby (?)
Smuggler’s Blues, Glen Frey (?)
Cause I got High, Afroman (?)
Cure for Pain, Morphine
There She Goes, by the Las.
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
My Sweet Prince - Placebo
Cocaine by Eric Clapton.
My kid loved this song. Took me forever to figure out what the “OK” song was though.
“It’s OK, it’s OK, it’s OK…OK” :smack:
I know it as the theme from Trainspotting, a movie about junkies.
Skinny Puppy - Addiction
Nine Inch Nails - Hurt
Nirvana - In Bloom
“(Don’t ride) the White Horse” by I don’t know. 
**The Jesus & Mary Chain **- Some Candy Talking
Fleetwood Mac Gold Dust Woman
Rolling Stones Brown Sugar
"Morphine Song", by Ray Davies. He wrote it in the hospital after being shot in New Orleans.
by Laid Back
I think that the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Under the Bridge” is about heroine, isn’t it?
mswas, you could have added so many more of Skinny Puppy’s songs…Harsh Stone White or Love in Vein, etc, etc…
What is it about great talent and heroin overdoses? RIP Dwane.