I recently stumbled upon a FOX news article where Elvis Presley’s former doctor spoke about his beliefs on how Elvis died and I felt it was important to talk about it. Keeping in mind that Elvis had 10 drugs in his system at the time of his death, his doctor of 12 years expressed his opinion on how he believed Elvis died.
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Sunday, April 29, 2012
Substance Abuse Can Cause Progressive and Permanent Disease of the Metabolism
I recently stumbled upon a FOX news article where Elvis Presley’s former doctor spoke about his beliefs on how Elvis died and I felt it was important to talk about it. Keeping in mind that Elvis had 10 drugs in his system at the time of his death, his doctor of 12 years expressed his opinion on how he believed Elvis died.
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Morphine: Treatment for Addiction at Birth?
Friday, April 27, 2012
Recommended Reading: Addiction: A Family Affiar
Thursday, April 26, 2012
On Being a Model: The Swimsuit or Lingerie Shot Can Get You In Trouble
When you show people your portfolio who are not real agents, that know what they are doing, they might see a swimsuit or a lingerie shot as something models might not want them to see. Also, if a model does not have a good manager, agent and maybe even a lawyer and people know this, you might end up at a sleazy photographer’s house or God forbid some place worse, like I did. Unfortunately, some models do end up in these sleazy places, where they learn drug abuse and bad behavior and get taken advantage of, instead of keeping the focus on how to become a successful model. One piece of advice here would be: Don't hang out with models who end up in these situations, cause chances are they could get you in trouble just by hanging out with the wrong people.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Rosie O'Donnell: Let Lindsay do her Job!
Monday, April 23, 2012
Monday, April 16, 2012
Painter Thomas Kinkade Death at 54; Suspected Alcoholism Relapse
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Thursday, April 12, 2012
Whitney Houston Final Autopsy: The Horror of Addiction
"(NewsCore) - Whitney Houston's body was ravaged by scars, cuts and burns when she died, autopsy details showed.
Years of drug and alcohol abuse had left the "Bodyguard" star with a damaged heart and liver, a hole in her nose and 11 front teeth missing.
Traces of cocaine, cannabis, anxiety pill Xanax, muscle relaxant Flexeril, allergy medicine Benadryl and painkiller Ibuprofen were found in her body.
Houston's lifestyle also had weakened her heart so badly that one of her coronary arteries had narrowed by 60 percent. She had marks on her stomach, chest and upper left thigh believed to be from cosmetic procedures. A scar on her left forearm may also have been self-inflicted. The 48-year-old was also scarred by decades of cosmetic surgery, alcohol-fueled fights and falls.The official cause of death was accidental drowning with heart disease and cocaine use as contributing factors."
Thursday, April 5, 2012
George F. Will: Legalized Drugs would Solve one Problem, Create Many More
Today, the National Post published an article well worth reading. George F. Will's argument against illicit drug legalization sheds light on subjects seldom highlighted in the debate on what would actually happen if illicit drugs were legalized. Something I for one am wholeheartedly against, as this would make the problem of addiction far worse.
The costs — human, financial and social — of combating (most) drugs are prompting calls for decriminalization or legalization. America should, however, learn from the psychoactive drug used by a majority of American adults — alcohol.
Mark Kleiman of UCLA, a policy analyst, was recently discussing drug policy with someone who said he had no experience with illegal drugs, not even marijuana, because he is of “the gin generation.” Ah, said Kleiman, gin: “A much more dangerous drug.” Twenty percent of all American prisoners — 500,000 people — are incarcerated for dealing illegal drugs, but alcohol causes as much as half of America’s criminal violence and vehicular fatalities.
Drinking alcohol had been a widely exercised private right for millennia when America tried to prohibit it. As a public health measure, Prohibition “worked”: Alcohol-related illnesses declined dramatically. As the monetary cost of drinking tripled, deaths from cirrhosis of the liver declined by a third. This improvement was, however, paid for in the coin of rampant criminality and disrespect for law.
Prohibition resembled what is today called decriminalization: It did not make drinking illegal; it criminalized the making, importing, transporting or selling of alcohol. Drinking remained legal, so oceans of it were made, imported, transported and sold.
Another legal drug, nicotine, kills more people than do alcohol and all illegal drugs — combined. For decades, government has aggressively publicized the health risks of smoking and made it unfashionable, stigmatized, expensive and inconvenient. Yet 20 percent of every rising American generation becomes addicted to nicotine.
So, suppose cocaine or heroin were legalized and marketed as cigarettes and alcohol are. And suppose the level of addiction were to replicate the 7 percent of adults suffering from alcohol abuse or dependency. That would be a public health disaster. As the late James Q. Wilson said, nicotine shortens life, cocaine debases it...."
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Remembering Mike Starr
Remembering Heath Ledger
Shifty Shellshock Out Of Coma
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Parents Lock Your Medicine Cabinet
When I was a kid, my parents probably never suspected that I would reach for the medicine cabinet to eat the Children’s Coricidin, candy flavored chewable cold medication, because it tasted good to me. I really had no idea that I was getting high or that I was reaching for drugs. But eating Coricidin cold meds became a regular habit for me when I was a child and no one ever questioned it.
Monday, April 2, 2012
Shifty Shellshock: Angel on my Watch List
Oaksterdam University: Raid by Feds, No Surprise
Today’s raid of Oaksterdam University and museum by federal agents, the U.S. Marshall and the Drug Enforcement Administration should come as no surprise to anyone. In fact, many have known, it’s been a long time coming, because under Federal law, possession, cultivation and sale of marijuana is illegal.
Richard Lee, founder of Okasterdam and financier for a large part of California Proposition 19, has been pushing a duplicitous drug legalization agenda and it’s about time someone held him accountable.
First, he made the cultivation of marijuana for medicinal purposes, under the guise of Proposition 215, into populist movement of provocateurs, who for the most part could care less how marijuana legalization efforts affect our society. Then, Lee bankrolled the failed ballot measure Proposition 19, which asked voters to legalize pot for recreational use, in violation of federal law.
It doesn’t take an expert on drug policy to recognize, that what people call medical marijuana today, is not really a product mostly sold to those who have “medical necessity.” Instead, those who want to get high are hiding behind the sick, so they can raid the “medicine cabinet”, pretending they are patients, when in fact they have no serious medical necessity at all. I know it, they know it, we all know it; today’s medical marijuana is a sham and we would be better off isolating the truly ill, of which according to statistics there are few, and abandon the idea of “medical marijuana” once and for all.
Sunday, April 1, 2012
When Elvis Died, No One Dared to Factor in Drug Use
While this ABC News report says Elivs died from a suspected drug overdose, after his death, no one kept it in the news until decades later. The Memphis Mafia, Elvis most trusted friends, finally penned a book where they gave insight on what really happened around Elvis and how badly he was addicted to prescription drugs. In a recent FOX news exclusive, Elvis doctor claims he died from constipation, not drugs. Even if this theory were true and it is interesting to see Dr. Nick's arguments, prescription pills which Elivs favored are known to cause severe constipation and if taken over time IBS. Dr. Nick who was Elvis doctor for 12 years knew this.
Read the more on the FOX exclusive here