*At the time, I believed that Janis had misjudged the dose of heroin she could tolerate. When I later learned from Laura Joplin’s Love, Janis that the heroin she took was unusually strong, and that others among her dealer’s customers had died of overdoses in the same week, I saw that Janis’s share of the responsibility for her misstep was smaller than I had imagined, and this made her fate seem all the more disproportionate.