Famous people and Drugaddiction

Juan Alberto Castro started to work on TV and radio when he was 16, and he become famous in TELEFE in 1993. In 2001 the reporter confessed he was homosexual when he was intervinwed by "Planeta Urbano" magazine and 2003 he had a TV program called "Kaos en la ciudad" where he confessed he had been in hell after being in hospital for his addiction to drugs.
He talked about his addiction in his own program because it was about those problems. He never said he was cured what he said was that "IF YOU ARE AN ADDICT, YOU`RE AN ADDICT ALL YOUR LIFE". Castro had been addict to cocaine since he was 23 year old. The police found out that a man called Juan Alberto Peréz, "Coya", had sold him cocaine .
On 2nd march 2004 Castro misteriously fell off the balcony of his flat (on the first floor) and died on 6th march after being in hospital for 3 days. He was only 33 years old.
The causes and situation about his death hasn`t been discovered yet.
People who work in the means of comunication tend to have problems with drugs and they move in the some context as Juan Castro used to move years ago.







Integrants: Iglesias, Montamat, Pittaluga, Rodriguez, Vello. 4"A"