Why do people with so little problems turn to drugs?

Zappa got a premonition on that: Bobby Brown goes down...

love her music of the 80s and 90s her voice was really "the voice" then! too bad she met bobby :(

Its alright, we got rihanna and nicki now. We don't need her anymore.

you did not even live when she was good no wonder you don't miss her lol

I bought her debut album in 1985. Favorite song:

I always hoped she'd make a true soul record one day, but she's always been a pop singer. Nothing wrong with that, she still was great. For many people who followed her career right from the start it's still hard to believe that out of all 80s superstars she's the one who turned into a drug addict, but in the end it's always the people with faked scandals or outlaw image who have the best fitness trainers. Like Madonna. Or Iggy Pop. Her death makes me sad, unlike Jackson's or Cobain's. R.I.P., Whitney.

Whitney Houston was found dead in hotel bath tub. She drowned in bath after passing out from drugs/alcohol.

Her death will lead to a huge sales boost in her albums just like most recently dead singers. 

Can't say I'm affected by this, her high points were before my time and all I've heard throughout my life how far she has fallen.

Slightly off-topic, I've been looking for that thread from a while ago about predicting the next celebrity death - somebody might have nailed this one.

She succumbed to drug addiction just like lots of other now dead singers/musicians: Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobian, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley and countless others.
The Legend and her music will live on and on.

Sony's response:
Sony Music executives will meet this week in New York to determine a strategy for marketing the nine albums, soundtracks and compilations that feature Whitney Houston, the pop singer who died on Saturday at age 48, according to two people familiar with the plans.

Executives will also discuss stepping up marketing efforts for the upcoming film “Sparkle,” a low-budget movie starring Houston that will be released in August, and for the accompanying soundtrack on which she sings two songs, added one of the people with knowledge of the conversations.

But you cant blame them look at the number from when MJ died: In 2009, following Michael Jackson’s death, the New York-based company aggressively marketed Jackson’s prior albums, selling more than 8.2 million in the US and more than 35 million worldwide, according to Billboard.