You reminded me of the death of their bassist Cliff Burton now, back in 1986. Not a drug-related death, but it was on the road (or possibly was, since the band had decided to travel on tour buses in icy weather while in Sweden and who knows what overrode common sense to make them do that).
On the other hand, if I had to hang out with Lars all the time, I’d probably be hitting the bottle too, LOL!
What happened that night was that Cliff and Kirk had what I think they described as a friendly argument about which of them was going to sleep in a particular bunk on the bus that night.
They decided to settle the matter by drawing cards. Cliff drew first, and he drew the Ace of Spades. They was no need for Kirk to draw, Cliff got the bunk.
Later on that night, the bus left the road, and everyone lived except Cliff, who was sleeping in the bunk he won with the Ace of Spades.