Janis Joplin's final and posthumous release, 'Pearl', still echoes the pain felt by the famed singer decades after her untimely death.

“It was the times,” Laura says of Joplin’s drug use. “I think Janis was human. She wanted to be applauded. And she had fears. She was obviously stepping into a world she knew nothing about.

Janis Joplin was born and raised in Port Arthur ... A year later, she decided to try her luck on the East Coast in New York City, but her drug and alcohol abuse dragged her down.

As the first chronicle of Joplin’s bisexuality, Going Down With Janis added a new texture to ... of Joplin’s deadly drug habit, a charge Caserta credibly dismantled in her 2018 memoir.

It includes Cory Monteith, River Phoenix, John Belushi, Janis Joplin, and dozens more. But for every boldface name whose life was destroyed by the drug there are hundreds of un-famous victims.