"Fix" was written on the heels of the OD deaths of Sublime's Brad Nowell and Smashing Pumpkins touring guitarist Jonathan Melvoin, and the descent into heroin hell by a lot of important musicians, including Scott Weiland (I was a huge fan of STP's '96 album Tiny Music from the Vatican Gift Shop and was very upset they canceled their tour) and both Layne Staley and Mike Starr from Alice In Chains, a band I felt were growing by leaps and bounds artistically.
The worst part about it was how aggressively the corporate establishment was pushing heroin chic, despite the obvious havoc it was wreaking. And I mean "despite" as it "to spite." It was all about deliberately selling a death-style to young people. Spite was a major driving force behind it.
