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Michael Alig: The Life and Death of the Party

By Tricia Romano

Nightmare On Club Street

What started as an Ecstasy dream became cocktail drug nightmare.

Alig and the Club Kids' descent in the darker, harder drugs perfectly mirrored what was happening in rave scene throughout the rest of America. Ecstasy use gave way to multiple drug use. Soon, Alig and his clubbers were combining Ecstasy with methamphetamine or ketamine—Special K, and even heroin and crack. By the mid-90s, Alig's drug use had gone from abstinence, to occasional recreation, to full-blown addiction. With addiction comes an obsession for an endless supply of drugs, and there's no better way to procure drugs than to be "friends" with a drug dealer.

Enter Angel Melendez, born Andre Melendez.

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1. Introduction
2. King Of Queens
3. What Goes Up Must Go Higher
4. Nightmare On Club Street
5. When Angel Met Alig
6. Growing Up Alig
7. Down The Rabbit Hole
8. Standing Up to the Bully
9. Meeting His Makers
10. I Heard It Through the Grapevine
11. Getting Rid Of The Body
12. The Investigation Begins
13. Escape From New York
14. Confessions of a Body Hacker
15. Sentencing
16. Party Over, Out of Time
17. Bibliography