Joe Methany's Addiction to Heroin

Joe Methany claimed that while out in Vietnam, he'd become addicted to heroin. However, US Army tours of Vietnam ended in the same year that Joe joined up. Jean-Joe's mum claims she has absolutely no memory of any mention of Vietnam when Joe was in the service. She always thought he'd been stationed in Germany. In 1973, counterculture, anarchism and squatting were thriving. And along with that came a surge in recreational drug use. So if Joe Methany was stationed in Germany, as his mum Jean claims to remember, then there's a good chance that he would have been exposed to the same heavy drug use that was also common in Vietnam.